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Reassessing India’s Draft SGI Rules: Key Concerns and Expert Recommendations

Categories: IT Act, Technology

Background: Deepfakes and Digital Abuse in India In November 2023, a deepfake video featuring actor Rashmika Mandanna went viral across Indian social media platforms, showing her face superimposed onto another woman’s body[1]. The incident sparked national outrage and prompted Delhi Police to arrest the creator within weeks. But Mandanna’s case represents only the visible tip […]

India’s Data Protection in the Workplace and its Impact on Employers

India’s Data Protection in the Workplace and its Impact on Employers

Categories: Cybersecurity, Data Protection, IT Act, Privacy, Technology

In January 2024, Amazon France Logistique was fined €32 million by the French Data Protection Authority, CNIL for its employee data processing practices. The company’s employee monitoring practices¹ caught attention of the regulator for being excessive, non-transparent and violative of privacy rights of employees under the Eur0pean Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The […]

C4CII: Cloud for Critical Information Infrastructure

C4CII: Cloud for Critical Information Infrastructure

Categories: Cybersecurity, Finanace, Foreign Policy, Internal Security, Privacy, Science & Technology, Security, Technology, Uncategorized

A PDF version of the report is available here. Executive Summary The era of digitisation may have begun, when the Personal computer became available as a mass market device in the year 1970, when the Altair 8800 was introduced, but it accelerated at great speed in the 2000s, when internet companies figured out how to create […]

India’s Privacy Bill (DPDP, 2023): A Detailed Analysis

India’s Privacy Bill (DPDP, 2023): A Detailed Analysis

Categories: Cybersecurity, Foreign Policy, Geopolitics, International Relations, Privacy, Security, Technology

The landmark Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023 is finally here, and it comes with some significant changes from the last draft that was put out for consultation last year. DeepStrat had submitted its comments to the draft in January, 2023 and several suggestions have been incorporated. There are several major changes that have […]

Analysis of the GoM Report on GST for Online Gaming

Analysis of the GoM Report on GST for Online Gaming

Categories: Finanace, Technology

A. Gaming Industry in India   “The gaming market is huge internationally and the number of youth connected to this market globally is increasing. That is why in this year’s [2022] budget we have focused on Animation Visual Effects Gaming Comic (AVGC)”1 Mr. Narendra Modi, Hon’ble Prime Minister of India “The animation, visual effects, gaming, […]

The Tech Fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

The Tech Fallout of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Categories: Conflict, International Relations, Technology

Carl Von Clausewitz, the Prussian General and military theorist introduced the concept of “absolute war” where participants use every means at their disposal to achieve victory. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine enters its seventh day, much of what the world is witnessing reiterates Clausewitz’s theory of absolute war. While the tanks, soldiers, aircraft and […]

Executive Summary & Recommendations: Report on Analysing the National Security Implication of Weakening Encryption

Executive Summary & Recommendations: Report on Analysing the National Security Implication of Weakening Encryption

Categories: Cybersecurity, Technology

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Encryption in today’s increasingly interconnected world is perhaps the only technology that provides us a sense of safety online. It is the most important enabler of free speech and indirectly thus, allows for the internet enabled communication to provide the same privacy we expect within the confines of what a physical conversation with […]

Analysing the National Security Implication of Weakening Encryption

Analysing the National Security Implication of Weakening Encryption

Categories: Cybersecurity, Technology

This study by The DialogueTM and DeepStrat analyses the national security implications of weakening encryption technology. It is based on qualitative inputs from veterans in the law enforcement, intelligence agencies, the military and India’s tech community. The report is also a deep study of global legal and technical standards. It highlights the challenges investigators face […]

For investigations, metadata is enough. Uphold privacy

For investigations, metadata is enough. Uphold privacy

Categories: Cybersecurity, Privacy, Technology

Intelligence agencies, around the world, collect enormous amounts of data on individuals on grounds of national security. They also plead for laws to access the content of encrypted messages between individuals on social media — a demand social media companies are uncomfortable with. We believe there is a strong case for analysing metadata better, which […]

India’s new IT Rules could end privacy, erode security

India’s new IT Rules could end privacy, erode security

Categories: Privacy, Technology

With the Supreme Court’s imprimatur on Right to Privacy as a fundamental right, the country was eagerly waiting for a Data Protection Law to be enacted by Parliament, after due deliberation and clearance by a joint parliamentary committee. But before the contours of the privacy regime could be laid out in cold print, the government […]