New Delhi, May 21 -- In the late 1980s, concerns began to arise about the privacy of email communication. Though not yet as ubiquitous as it was destined to become, email had already become a common e... Read More
New Delhi, May 7 -- This year, as with nearly every recent election, questions were raised about the functioning of electronic voting machines (EVMs). While the Supreme Court upheld their use in elect... Read More
New Delhi, April 30 -- Since so much of my work lies at the intersection of law and technology, I'm always interested in theories of governance. If I can understand how governance works, I believe I w... Read More
New Delhi, April 23 -- Last week, the Bank for International Settlements published a paper that proposed the establishment of 'the Finternet'-a brand new digital framework that uses modern technology ... Read More
New Delhi, April 17 -- When ChatGPT was first made publicly available, I remember marvelling at the quality of its output and thinking that AI had finally improved to the point where it might be good ... Read More
New Delhi, April 9 -- Among the more worrisome provisions of India's new Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, is Section 9 that imposes an obligation on all data fiduciaries to obtain a ... Read More
New Delhi, April 2 -- It is hard to argue with the success of India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). With over 12 billion transactions processed each month, it is already, by an order of magnitude,... Read More
New Delhi, March 26 -- Last year saw tremendous enthusiasm around the concept of digital public infrastructure (DPI) during the G20 and after. What I didn't realize at the time was that lurking just b... Read More
New Delhi, March 19 -- Last week, the price of Bitcoin reached a record high. Friends who just a few months ago were boasting about how cleverly they had exited before the crash were now bemoaning the... Read More
New Delhi, March 13 -- Last week, I came across a newspaper article about the perils of a new form of entertainment. This scourge was, the piece argued, "a vehicle of pure moral and religious instruct... Read More