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Artificial Intelligence

1. AI Optimisation
2. Learning to Read
3. Storytelling Reimagined
4. Open AI Innovation
5. Time Limited Arguments
6. AI Companions
7. Diversity Through AI
8. Controlling AI Export
9. Getting AI to Work for You
10. Technophobia
11. Learning from Failure
12. CAS Regulations for AI
13. Liars Dividend
14. NYT v. the LLMs
15. Looking Back on 2023
16. AI for the Global South
17. Human Writing
18. Governing the Governors
19. Pandora's Box
20. Managing AI Disruption
21. Proof of Humanness
22. Mad AI Disease
23. Neither Good Nor Bad
24. Musical Intelligence
25. Fear of the Unknown
26. Rule Makers
27. In-Built Bias
28. Ill-Advised Advisory
29. AI's GDPR Problem
30. Pro-Innovation Regulation
31. Containing AI
32. Does AI Copy
33. Momentous Change
34. Truth and LLMs
35. It's Getting Real
36. The Language Barrier
37. Should AI own IP
38. We Don't Need Large Datasets
39. It’s better to use incentives than diktats to develop AI
40. Rising machine intelligence is a double-edged sword
41. Machines can err but humans aren’t infallible either
42. It’s time to frame rules for our artificial companions
43. Ridding the judicial system of human subjectivity
44. Using artificial intelligence more effectively
45. Artificial Intelligence and the Law of the Horse
46. Tabula Rasa
47. Collaborative AI
48. 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. A Tidal Wave of Disruption
2. ON Courts
3. Embracing ODR
4. Lawyer, Disrupt Thyself
5. Accessible Legal Systems
6. Judicial Sector Reform
7. A Golden Opportunity for Judicial Reform
8. Online Dispute Resolution
9. Store data efficiently to get insights for justice reforms
10. Adaptive legal advice for shape-shifting businesses
11. Ridding the judicial system of human subjectivity
12. Disruption and innovation in the legal industry
13. The need for innovation in the legal sector
14. A game of Chinese whispers in the Aadhaar case
15. Will technology be able to disrupt the legal industry?
16. Collaborative AI
17. 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. The Loss of Immunity
2. Moderating Systems
3. Dis-Content
4. Appealing Moderation
5. Backfire
6. Intermediaries Liable
7. Gatekeepers at the Edge
8. Moderating with Moderation
9. Shield online platforms for content moderation to work
10. The value of scepticism in the age of deep-fake videos
11. The challenge of detecting fake content
12. History shows us how to deal with news echo chambers
13. 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. A DPI for Non-Financial Data
2. The Grand Bargain
3. ON Courts
4. A Commitment to Reuse
5. DPI for Competition
6. Diversity Through AI
7. A New Model for UPI
8. In Favour of DPI
9. Looking Back on 2023
10. No-one Left Behind
11. Brazilian DPI
12. No Time for False Modesty
13. New Delhi Declaration
14. DPI Solutions
15. Digital Gender Inclusion
16. An Explosion of DPI
17. Existential Angst
18. Your Face is Your Boarding Pass
19. Alt Big Tech
20. Looking Back
21. Data Governance - The DPI Way
22. Neutral Global Infrastructure
23. Autocracy or Vetocracy
24. Centralise or Federate
25. Opening Closed Spaces
26. A Technolegal Approach to Data Transfers
27. The Dark Cloud over India's Micro-Entrepreneurs
28. Encoding Privacy Principles
29. New Umbrella Entities are not a good idea
30. We must act to stop the future from turning dystopian
31. Not All It Could Be
32. The Aadhaar amendment and private sector access
33. Ensuring that the vulnerable benefit from Aadhaar
34. The Aadhaar verdict: everybody lost
35. The Stiff Backbone of the Aadhaar Bill

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. Storytelling Reimagined
2. Hybrid Work
3. How the covid pandemic could reshape life in our cities
4. What will the new jobs look like?
5. The robots are taking our jobs
6. 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. Synthetic Biology
2. Open AI Innovation
3. Idea Factories
4. Open Access
5. The Cycles of Technology
6. Problems and Solutions
7. Timing is Everything
8. Funding Science
9. Patient Capital
10. Subscribing to Things
11. Bring Back Interoperability
12. Leveraging new technologies for development
13. Where have all the polymaths gone?
14. In defence of friction
15. Biology as engineering
16. The Future of Ownership

Intellectual Property

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

Regulation

1. The Ban Reflex
2. Open Source Governance
3. Ideas for Acceleration
4. Monopoly Over Dematerialised Violence
5. Pandora's Box
6. A New Delhi Effect
7. Around The Corner
8. New Electronic Records
9. Pre-Legislative Consultation
10. Data Breach Notifications
11. Smart Regulation
12. Striking a Balance
13. Breaking the Rules
14. Principle Based Regulations
15. Electronic Evidence
16. Retrospective
17. The Bright Side of Life
18. Platform Regulation
19. Agile Tech Regulations
20. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
21. We must guard against the casual disregard of science
22. A blueprint for an effective data protection authority
23. A three-point plan to improve tech policy formulation
24. Policy advocacy is really an exercise in compromise
25. Time to redo FDI in e-commerce in India
26. The Highway Ban
27. Path Dependence
28. FOMO and the Law
29. Regulatory Sandbox
30. Regtech Will Change the Way We Regulate
31. Lazy Legislation
32. 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. The Ban Reflex
2. Synthetic Biology
3. Digitally Accessible
4. Neither Good Nor Bad
5. Safety Innovations
6. Musical Intelligence
7. Fear of the Unknown
8. Networked Thought
9. Retrospective
10. Tools For Thought
11. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
12. The case for meat options that taste like the real thing
13. Creative destruction and the global music industry
14. Decentralised Urban Management
15. The Morality of Technology
16. The Ethics of Persuasion
17. GPS is a Time Machine
18. 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