• Rohan Seth

    ... is a former scholar from the University of Westminster and is currently working as Project Manager at The Takshashila Institution. Views are personal.

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If the Indian government does get social media platforms to part with user data, it should remember that with great power over the citizens comes a greater responsibility towards the citizens.
“Zuckerberg needs to operate in a system of checks and balances. The stakes are far too high to think otherwise.”
Big data gives streaming platforms more empirically reliable information about our tastes and tendencies than even we could honestly provide in a survey.
India’s draft policy on e-commerce has laid a strong emphasis on data localisation and constraints on foreign players.
More often than not, data is jeopardised by inadequate supporting infrastructure rather than malevolent threats.
Imagine a scenario wherein you walk out onto the main road and are not immediately assaulted by toxic exhaust fumes and rumbling internal combustion engines.
The mouthpiece for a country’s premier statesman is occasionally bound to be dumbfounded by the public’s queries. But that can’t be a reason not to have one in a modern democracy. | Reuters