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The Present and Future of Digital Privacy | The Score Keeper Comic Strip Launch

With The Score Keeper comic strip, we set out to explore more engaging and accessible modes of facilitating public engagement on digital privacy. Our goal was to create a format that could reach a much wider audience, especially those who are not academic specialists or policy makers, and to communicate the stakes of privacy in a way that feels relatable and urgent. The comic imagines what a citizenship score system might look like in India’s digital welfare state—a system where entitlements and benefits are closely tied to the collection and use of personal data. It draws on familiar realities: the growing integration of state services and technology, the quiet accumulation of personal information, and the subtle ways in which these processes can reshape our freedoms. As our panellists observed, privacy is often seen as a matter of “big” decisions. In practice, however, it is the countless small, routine exchanges of data—made without much thought—that compound into something far more powerful and potentially harmful. By telling this story through characters and narrative rather than legal or technical language, The Score Keeper invites readers to see how those seemingly minor choices add up. Read the Comic here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GQooF8wyIySxUAETKH9GMCvdBxC6FYYe/view?usp=sharing

The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India - The Jio Effect (with Vishal Trehan)

‘The  Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India’ is a project by  the Centre for Law and Policy Research which aims to collate  multi-disciplinary scholarship on the subject of the law and philosophy  of information regulation, with a specific focus on India. In this  episode, we discuss the rise of Jio's telecom and mobile internet services and its implications on internet infrastructure in India, with respect to changes it is bringing to market structure and competition. For more information, please visit:  https://clpr.org.in/blog/the-philosophy-and-law-of-information-regulation-in-india-call-for-papers/

The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India: The Political Economy of Information Disclosures (with Gunjan Chawla)

‘The  Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India’ is a project by  the Centre for Law and Policy Research which aims to collate  multi-disciplinary scholarship on the subject of the law and philosophy  of information regulation, with a specific focus on India. In this  episode, we discuss Gunjan Chawla's work examining and theorising the effects of leaks and disclosures on India's cyber security policy and its implications for citizen-state relations. For more information on this project, please visit:  https://clpr.org.in/blog/the-philosophy-and-law-of-information-regulation-in-india-call-for-papers/

The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India: Biopiracy, Machine Learning, and Legal-Informational Infrastructure (with Allison Fish and Brad Sherman)

‘The  Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India’ is a project by  the Centre for Law and Policy Research which aims to collate  multi-disciplinary scholarship on the subject of the law and philosophy  of information regulation, with a specific focus on India. In this episode, we speak to Dr. Allison Fish and Prof. Brad Sherman about their paper on the creation of a techno-legal information infrastructure in India, and what it implies for international and domestic legal arrangements on biopiracy and bioprospecting of genetic resources. For more information about the project, please visit:  https://clpr.org.in/blog/the-philosophy-and-law-of-information-regulation-in-india-call-for-papers/

The Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India: Cross Border Data Flows (with Arindrajit Basu)

‘The  Philosophy and Law of Information Regulation in India’ is a project by  the Centre for Law and Policy Research which aims to collate  multi-disciplinary scholarship on the subject of the law and philosophy  of information regulation, with a specific focus on India. In this episode, we discuss Arindrajit Basu's work analysing the Government of India's stance and philosophy towards cross-border data flows, particularly as it relates to the transnational governance of the internet.  For more  information, please visit:  https://clpr.org.in/blog/the-philosophy-and-law-of-information-regulation-in-india-call-for-papers/