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Artificial Intelligence

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

Autonomous Technology

1. A Driverless Future
2. The perilous consequences of automation dependency
3. Autonomous transportation at scale is here
4. Will humans be part of the wars of the future?
5. Unintended consequences of autonomous transportation
6. War of the machines
7. Ready for the day the Machines Take Over
8. The Rise of the Machines
9. 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. Enhanced Geothermal
2. DPI Thinking for COP30
3. The Cost of Cold
4. An Internet for energy
5. Virtual Power Plants
6. Solar Geoengineering
7. Green Fuel
8. Setting the Standard
9. The case for meat options that taste like the real thing
10. Getting the Earth out of the Anthropocene period
11. 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 With Tokens
2. Transparent Take Down
3. The Loss of Immunity
4. Moderating Systems
5. Dis-Content
6. Appealing Moderation
7. Backfire
8. Intermediaries Liable
9. Gatekeepers at the Edge
10. Moderating with Moderation
11. Shield online platforms for content moderation to work
12. The value of scepticism in the age of deep-fake videos
13. The challenge of detecting fake content
14. History shows us how to deal with news echo chambers
15. The backfire effect and the menace of fake news

Data Governance

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

Digital Public Infrastructure

1. Full Circle
2. Tragedy of the Commons
3. Are We There Yet?
4. Verifiable Credentials
5. DPI Thinking for COP30
6. Consent Managers
7. An Internet for energy
8. Taking Stock
9. A DPI for Climate Change
10. Tech Solutions for Use Limitation
11. A DPI for Non-Financial Data
12. The Grand Bargain
13. ON Courts
14. A Commitment to Reuse
15. DPI for Competition
16. Diversity Through AI
17. A New Model for UPI
18. In Favour of DPI
19. Looking Back on 2023
20. No-one Left Behind
21. Brazilian DPI
22. No Time for False Modesty
23. New Delhi Declaration
24. DPI Solutions
25. Digital Gender Inclusion
26. An Explosion of DPI
27. Existential Angst
28. Your Face is Your Boarding Pass
29. Alt Big Tech
30. Looking Back
31. Data Governance - The DPI Way
32. Neutral Global Infrastructure
33. Autocracy or Vetocracy
34. Centralise or Federate
35. Opening Closed Spaces
36. A Technolegal Approach to Data Transfers
37. The Dark Cloud over India's Micro-Entrepreneurs
38. Encoding Privacy Principles
39. New Umbrella Entities are not a good idea
40. We must act to stop the future from turning dystopian
41. Not All It Could Be
42. The Aadhaar amendment and private sector access
43. Ensuring that the vulnerable benefit from Aadhaar
44. The Aadhaar verdict: everybody lost
45. 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. Nanny State
2. The App Store Tax
3. 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. Rare Disease Platform
2. Secondary Use of Health Data
3. Micro Robots
4. Studying Human Infection
5. Neither Good Nor Bad
6. Rule Makers
7. In-Built Bias
8. Phages and Precision Medicine
9. Patient Capital
10. The Rural Challenge
11. The Vaccine Waiver
12. Vaccinate
13. The Cost of Orphan Drugs
14. The mission to put health records at doctors fingertips
15. Immunity passports might be inevitable as we go along
16. How the covid pandemic could reshape life in our cities
17. Aarogya Setu and the value of syndromic surveillance
18. Mobility datasets could help India exit the lockdown
19. The corona crisis must not make us shut the world out
20. Platform technologies could deliver a vaccine quickly
21. Forensic DNA technology and the miasma of distrust
22. The dilemma of trying out new cures for malaria
23. Manufacturing drugs on demand
24. The downside of gene editing
25. The use of technology in providing healthcare
26. Genetic matchmaking can improve medical outcomes
27. The lady with the lamp and data-driven medicine
28. A new direction for data privacy in healthcare
29. Does right to life include advance directives?
30. Genetic diseases should be covered by insurance
31. Breaking Down Data Silos
32. Path to Self Improvement
33. A la Carte Medicine
34. The Myth of the Average Man
35. The End of Life
36. Insuring Previvors
37. Rare Diseases: Orphan Drugs
38. Big Bad Data
39. Cutting the Code with CRISPR
40. A Database of our Maladies

Identity

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

Regulation

1. Transparent Take Down
2. Assembly Theory
3. The Ban Reflex
4. Open Source Governance
5. Ideas for Acceleration
6. Monopoly Over Dematerialised Violence
7. Pandora's Box
8. A New Delhi Effect
9. Around The Corner
10. New Electronic Records
11. Pre-Legislative Consultation
12. Data Breach Notifications
13. Smart Regulation
14. Striking a Balance
15. Breaking the Rules
16. Principle Based Regulations
17. Electronic Evidence
18. Retrospective
19. The Bright Side of Life
20. Platform Regulation
21. Agile Tech Regulations
22. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
23. We must guard against the casual disregard of science
24. A blueprint for an effective data protection authority
25. A three-point plan to improve tech policy formulation
26. Policy advocacy is really an exercise in compromise
27. Time to redo FDI in e-commerce in India
28. The Highway Ban
29. Path Dependence
30. FOMO and the Law
31. Regulatory Sandbox
32. Regtech Will Change the Way We Regulate
33. Lazy Legislation
34. 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. De-Extinction
2. The Cost of Cold
3. A Look Back at 2024
4. The Ban Reflex
5. Synthetic Biology
6. Digitally Accessible
7. Neither Good Nor Bad
8. Safety Innovations
9. Musical Intelligence
10. Fear of the Unknown
11. Networked Thought
12. Retrospective
13. Tools For Thought
14. The future is here. It is just not evenly distributed yet
15. The case for meat options that taste like the real thing
16. Creative destruction and the global music industry
17. Decentralised Urban Management
18. The Morality of Technology
19. The Ethics of Persuasion
20. GPS is a Time Machine
21. From Ownership to Access

Telecommunication

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

Transport

1. A Driverless Future
2. Truckin
3. Setting the Standard
4. Optimizing the flow of road traffic
5. Battery harmonization will help electric vehicles
6. The Future of Ownership
7. Uberisation of National Transport
8. 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