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Artificial Intelligence

1. Time Limited Arguments
2. AI Companions
3. Diversity Through AI
4. Controlling AI Export
5. Getting AI to Work for You
6. Technophobia
7. Learning from Failure
8. CAS Regulations for AI
9. Liars Dividend
10. NYT v. the LLMs
11. Looking Back on 2023
12. AI for the Global South
13. Human Writing
14. Governing the Governors
15. Pandora's Box
16. Managing AI Disruption
17. Proof of Humanness
18. Mad AI Disease
19. Neither Good Nor Bad
20. Musical Intelligence
21. Fear of the Unknown
22. Rule Makers
23. In-Built Bias
24. Ill-Advised Advisory
25. AI's GDPR Problem
26. Pro-Innovation Regulation
27. Containing AI
28. Does AI Copy
29. Momentous Change
30. Truth and LLMs
31. It's Getting Real
32. The Language Barrier
33. Should AI own IP
34. We Don't Need Large Datasets
35. It’s better to use incentives than diktats to develop AI
36. Rising machine intelligence is a double-edged sword
37. Machines can err but humans aren’t infallible either
38. It’s time to frame rules for our artificial companions
39. Ridding the judicial system of human subjectivity
40. Using artificial intelligence more effectively
41. Artificial Intelligence and the Law of the Horse
42. Tabula Rasa
43. Collaborative AI
44. The Rise of the Machines

Autonomous Technology

1. The perilous consequences of automation dependency
2. Autonomous transportation at scale is here
3. Will humans be part of the wars of the future?
4. Unintended consequences of autonomous transportation
5. War of the machines
6. Ready for the day the Machines Take Over
7. The Rise of the Machines
8. The Ethics of Automation

Blockchain

1. The Finternet
2. Casino or Computer
3. Proof of Humanness
4. The Unified Ledger
5. Sufficient Decentralisation
6. A New Digital Coin
7. Virtually Mine
8. Crypto Regulation
9. The Future of Title
10. Non Fungible Tokens
11. The CBDC Alternative
12. What the top court’s order means for virtual currencies
13. UPI is world-class and it’s time to take it international
14. The futility of prohibiting bitcoin trade
15. Bitcoin and the law of centralization
16. Blockchain Land Records
17. Cutting out the Middleman
18. Blockchain Governance

Business of Law

1. Embracing ODR
2. Lawyer, Disrupt Thyself
3. Accessible Legal Systems
4. Judicial Sector Reform
5. A Golden Opportunity for Judicial Reform
6. Online Dispute Resolution
7. Store data efficiently to get insights for justice reforms
8. Adaptive legal advice for shape-shifting businesses
9. Ridding the judicial system of human subjectivity
10. Disruption and innovation in the legal industry
11. The need for innovation in the legal sector
12. A game of Chinese whispers in the Aadhaar case
13. Will technology be able to disrupt the legal industry?
14. Collaborative AI
15. The Demise of the Artisanal Lawyer

Climate Change

1. Virtual Power Plants
2. Solar Geoengineering
3. Green Fuel
4. Setting the Standard
5. The case for meat options that taste like the real thing
6. Getting the Earth out of the Anthropocene period
7. The Great Manure Crisis of 1894

Competition

1. DPI for Competition
2. Sharp Lines
3. Overlap
4. Competition in Telecoms
5. How to make online payments bustle with competition
6. Algorithmic collusion is a possibility to watch out for
7. The competition law and data advantage conundrum
8. Of digital competition and data transfer principles
9. For the digital world, customer is truly king
10. Intermediating supply and demand
11. Colluding Algorithms

Content Moderation

1. Moderating Systems
2. Dis-Content
3. Appealing Moderation
4. Backfire
5. Intermediaries Liable
6. Gatekeepers at the Edge
7. Moderating with Moderation
8. Shield online platforms for content moderation to work
9. The value of scepticism in the age of deep-fake videos
10. The challenge of detecting fake content
11. History shows us how to deal with news echo chambers
12. The backfire effect and the menace of fake news

Data Governance

1. The Zone of Mischief
2. A New Delhi Effect
3. The Third Way
4. Designing Data Governance
5. Data Breach
6. Exceptionally Simple
7. Digital Personal Data Protection
8. Asymmetry
9. Data Breach Notifications
10. The Unfulfilled Promise
11. National Priorities
12. Global Data Stability
13. Different Strokes
14. Autocracy or Vetocracy
15. Smart Regulation
16. Predicting the Future
17. To Forget or Not to Forget...
18. A New Westphalia
19. The Subscription Economy
20. Age Gating
21. Data is not the New Oil
22. Contract as Code
23. Why community data trustees should also be regulated
24. An opportunity lost for an internet we could all rely on
25. We need greater clarity on internet freedom in India
26. We may need a whole new approach to data protection
27. Agility should characterize the future of governance
28. We need a cost-benefit analysis of data localization
29. Why shutting down the internet is no longer an option
30. Skinny Solstice
31. Recommendation engines
32. Big Bad Data
33. The New Imperialists
34. Data is a Capital Asset

Digital Public Infrastructure

1. DPI for Competition
2. Diversity Through AI
3. A New Model for UPI
4. In Favour of DPI
5. Looking Back on 2023
6. No-one Left Behind
7. Brazilian DPI
8. No Time for False Modesty
9. New Delhi Declaration
10. DPI Solutions
11. Digital Gender Inclusion
12. An Explosion of DPI
13. Existential Angst
14. Your Face is Your Boarding Pass
15. Alt Big Tech
16. Looking Back
17. Data Governance - The DPI Way
18. Neutral Global Infrastructure
19. Autocracy or Vetocracy
20. Centralise or Federate
21. Opening Closed Spaces
22. A Technolegal Approach to Data Transfers
23. The Dark Cloud over India's Micro-Entrepreneurs
24. Encoding Privacy Principles
25. New Umbrella Entities are not a good idea
26. We must act to stop the future from turning dystopian
27. Not All It Could Be
28. The Aadhaar amendment and private sector access
29. Ensuring that the vulnerable benefit from Aadhaar
30. The Aadhaar verdict: everybody lost

Drones

1. The Skies are Free
2. Free the Skies
3. Technological restrictions in the new drone policy
4. Drones to the rescue
5. Drones should be regulated by city traffic laws not aviation regulations

E Commerce

1. The Governance Module
2. Unpacking the Retail Stack
3. The App Store Tax
4. The Dark Cloud over India's Micro-Entrepreneurs
5. The App Store Evolves
6. The Beckn Protocol
7. The competition law and data advantage conundrum
8. The need for an online dispute resolution mechanism
9. India's draft e-commerce policy is more a miss than a hit
10. The future of retail
11. Perfect Price Discrimination
12. Digital Inclusion for the 85%

Education

1. An education model that best suits the realities we face
2. Ready for the day the Machines Take Over

Encryption

1. Traceability is Antithetical to Liberty
2. Prepare for a world of quantum haves and have-nots

Environment

1. The risk of planetary geoengineering
2. The circular economy

Future of Work

1. Hybrid Work
2. How the covid pandemic could reshape life in our cities
3. What will the new jobs look like?
4. The robots are taking our jobs
5. Ready for the day the Machines Take Over

Gaming

1. The App Store Tax
2. The popularity and regulation of competitive eSports

Geopolitics of Technology

1. India’s 21st century dilemma of global non-alignment
2. How Britain got ahead of us in economic development

Health

1. Micro Robots
2. Studying Human Infection
3. Neither Good Nor Bad
4. Rule Makers
5. In-Built Bias
6. Phages and Precision Medicine
7. Patient Capital
8. The Rural Challenge
9. The Vaccine Waiver
10. Vaccinate
11. The Cost of Orphan Drugs
12. The mission to put health records at doctors fingertips
13. Immunity passports might be inevitable as we go along
14. How the covid pandemic could reshape life in our cities
15. Aarogya Setu and the value of syndromic surveillance
16. Mobility datasets could help India exit the lockdown
17. The corona crisis must not make us shut the world out
18. Platform technologies could deliver a vaccine quickly
19. Forensic DNA technology and the miasma of distrust
20. The dilemma of trying out new cures for malaria
21. Manufacturing drugs on demand
22. The downside of gene editing
23. The use of technology in providing healthcare
24. Genetic matchmaking can improve medical outcomes
25. The lady with the lamp and data-driven medicine
26. A new direction for data privacy in healthcare
27. Does right to life include advance directives?
28. Genetic diseases should be covered by insurance
29. Breaking Down Data Silos
30. Path to Self Improvement
31. A la Carte Medicine
32. The Myth of the Average Man
33. The End of Life
34. Insuring Previvors
35. Rare Diseases: Orphan Drugs
36. Big Bad Data
37. Cutting the Code with CRISPR
38. A Database of our Maladies

Identity

1. Proof of Humanness
2. Aadhaar: The Fine Balance between Identity and Anonymity
3. The Evolution of Identity
4. The Stiff Backbone of the Aadhaar Bill

Innovation

1. Idea Factories
2. Open Access
3. The Cycles of Technology
4. Problems and Solutions
5. Timing is Everything
6. Funding Science
7. Patient Capital
8. Subscribing to Things
9. Bring Back Interoperability
10. Leveraging new technologies for development
11. Where have all the polymaths gone?
12. In defence of friction
13. Biology as engineering
14. The Future of Ownership

Intellectual Property

1. NYT v. the LLMs
2. Does AI Copy
3. Rethinking Patents
4. Colour Me Purple
5. Ring Fencing
6. Should AI own IP
7. Let’s update the notion of ownership to the digital age
8. Biology as engineering
9. Cutting out the Middleman
10. The Remix Generation
11. The Artist and his Audience

Iot

1. The chilling consequences of the Internet of Things
2. It’s time to frame rules for our artificial companions
3. Easing the regulatory burden on the Internet of Things
4. How connected devices will change our lives
5. Quantified Self

Maps

1. Radical Map Reforms
2. Next Generation Map Technologies
3. The Everest Spheroid
4. Where Did Our Map Regulations Come From
5. What the New Geospatial Bill Means for You

Payments

1. The Unified Ledger
2. The Micropayment Alternative
3. The CBDC Alternative
4. The Underbelly of Digital Lending
5. Derived KYC
6. How to make online payments bustle with competition
7. Digital Inclusion for the 85%
8. Can we do without Cash

Privacy

1. Are We Willing to Change
2. Age Tokens
3. Embracing ODR
4. We've Got Work To Do
5. The Business End of the DPDP Act
6. Around The Corner
7. Sharp Lines
8. Looking Back
9. Data Breach
10. Exceptionally Simple
11. Digital Personal Data Protection
12. Privacy Impact Assessment
13. Judge Made Laws
14. Unreasonable Enforcement
15. Light at the End of the Tunnel
16. Privacy Self-Management
17. Calculated Communication
18. Identity and Privacy
19. Overlap
20. Competition in Telecoms
21. Consent to Port
22. Data localization could soon be the worldwide reality
23. The untold story behind the evolution of privacy rights
24. Tech-enabled oversight could put innovation at threat
25. The Jio-Facebook deal and our need for a privacy law
26. Mobility datasets could help India exit the lockdown
27. The privacy features that are built into Aarogya Setu
28. Liberties yielded in this crisis could set a new normal
29. The trade-off between privacy and content traceability
30. The trouble with using DNA matches to nab criminals
31. A blueprint for an effective data protection authority
32. We may need a whole new approach to data protection
33. End-to-end encryption must be retained at all cost
34. A new framework for consent to ensure data privacy
35. The needle in the digital haystack
36. How capitalism evolved to drop its defence of privacy
37. Account aggregators and e-consent for credit markets
38. The utter meaninglessness of anonymizing telecom data sets
39. When privacy, the word of the year, came into its own
40. Restoring the original vision of the internet
41. The Aadhaar verdict: everybody lost
42. When parents damage their children’s digital privacy
43. Limiting the government’s ability to violate privacy
44. Balancing Big Data and privacy
45. The Achilles heel of the draft personal data Bill
46. Complexity will be the privacy law’s undoing
47. India should make clear laws on data collection
48. The unintended consequences of Europe’s GDPR
49. A new direction for data privacy in healthcare
50. India need not adopt the onerous European General Data Protection Regulation
51. Do away with consent to strengthen data privacy
52. Data subject first
53. Privacy and household finance
54. The Good and the Bad of the Privacy Ruling
55. A New Hope for Personal Privacy
56. Aadhaar: The Fine Balance between Identity and Anonymity
57. A New Paradigm for Privacy
58. Digital Inclusion for the 85%
59. Its Time for Coveillance
60. Quantified Self
61. A Database of our Maladies
62. The accountability framework
63. The Stiff Backbone of the Aadhaar Bill

Regulation

1. Open Source Governance
2. Ideas for Acceleration
3. Monopoly Over Dematerialised Violence
4. Pandora's Box
5. A New Delhi Effect
6. Around The Corner
7. New Electronic Records
8. Pre-Legislative Consultation
9. Data Breach Notifications
10. Smart Regulation
11. Striking a Balance
12. Breaking the Rules
13. Principle Based Regulations
14. Electronic Evidence
15. Retrospective
16. The Bright Side of Life
17. Platform Regulation
18. Agile Tech Regulations
19. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
20. We must guard against the casual disregard of science
21. A blueprint for an effective data protection authority
22. A three-point plan to improve tech policy formulation
23. Policy advocacy is really an exercise in compromise
24. Time to redo FDI in e-commerce in India
25. The Highway Ban
26. Path Dependence
27. FOMO and the Law
28. Regulatory Sandbox
29. Regtech Will Change the Way We Regulate
30. Lazy Legislation
31. Using Tech to Ensure Data Symmetry

Renewable Energy

1. The V2G Opportunity
2. We Don't Need Large Datasets
3. A rethink of the grid design to shape our energy future

Social Media

1. Sufficient Decentralisation
2. Federated Social Media
3. Context is King
4. The Big Tech + Media Bargain
5. The rise of TikTok and regulatory eyebrows in the US
6. The value of scepticism in the age of deep-fake videos
7. Why our attempt to escape online outrage might fail
8. End-to-end encryption must be retained at all cost
9. The government and Big Tech need to meet halfway
10. Technology is making us less open to divergent views
11. For the digital world, customer is truly king
12. Restoring the original vision of the internet
13. The psychology of hate
14. Needed: A Fact Rank Algorithm to Flag Fake News
15. The Movement of Ideas
16. Algorithmic Oversight
17. The New News

Space

1. Space for the Private Sector
2. Elon Musk wants to colonise Mars but Earth needs to write its constitution first

Standards

1. Lessons on internet governance from the concert hall
2. Restoring the original vision of the internet

Surveillance

1. Somebody's Watching Me
2. The Subscription Economy
3. Why it’s not okay to compromise privacy for security
4. Internet was designed to understand and track us
5. When Algorithms Learn to Recognise You
6. Its Time for Coveillance

Technology

1. Digitally Accessible
2. Neither Good Nor Bad
3. Safety Innovations
4. Musical Intelligence
5. Fear of the Unknown
6. Networked Thought
7. Retrospective
8. Tools For Thought
9. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
10. The case for meat options that taste like the real thing
11. Creative destruction and the global music industry
12. Decentralised Urban Management
13. The Morality of Technology
14. The Ethics of Persuasion
15. GPS is a Time Machine
16. From Ownership to Access

Telecommunication

1. The Big Telecom Reform
2. Looking Back
3. Poorly Defined
4. Rethinking Telecom Regulation
5. The Great Unbundling of WiFi
6. The need to strengthen India’s internet infrastructure
7. The Centre could yet ride to the telecom sector’s rescue
8. A creeping expansion of TRAI’s authority

Transport

1. Truckin
2. Setting the Standard
3. Optimizing the flow of road traffic
4. Battery harmonization will help electric vehicles
5. The Future of Ownership
6. Uberisation of National Transport
7. The Ethics of Automation

Trust

1. How digital trust systems can guard against false data
2. Trust works two ways
3. False confidence
4. Trusting the Sharing Economy

Virtual Reality

1. Full Circle
2. The Future of Title
3. The Metaverse Opportunity
4. Get set for a blend of reality and its augmented version
5. Augmented Reality