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Rahul Matthan

Rahul Matthan

Articles by Rahul Matthan

India’s advocacy of DPI marks a global triumph

Even for someone as immersed in the DPI ecosystem as me, the sheer number of DPIs already operational around the world came as a pleasant surprise.

Updated on Sep 9, 2023 16:18 IST

The new data bill will mark a paradigm shift

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill was passed in Lok Sabha on Monday

Updated on Aug 7, 2023 16:40 IST

New regulation for online gaming has some gaps

The ministry of electronics and information technology responded to this need for uniformity by amending the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021 (IT Rules) to introduce a new regulatory framework for online gaming. (AFP)

Updated on Apr 26, 2023 13:49 IST

The hits and misses of data protection bill

Concern has been expressed about some aspects of the law, including the fact that the government has exempted itself from the application of many of the substantive provisions of the law. Exemptions of this kind are, however, present in almost every data protection law in the world.

Updated on Nov 24, 2022 03:23 IST

Who should finance digital ecosystems?

Had it not been for the government’s initial investment in the development and proliferation of BHIM, UPI may never have achieved the success it enjoys now. The market failure here was a missing market.

Updated on Mar 22, 2022 13:55 IST

Digital ecosystems: Who should finance what?

Governments can facilitate technologies where the market doesn’t see an immediate profit. The UPI revolution was boosted when BHIM — backed by the government — was launched. Google Pay and Amazon followed later.

Updated on Feb 21, 2022 14:41 IST

The end of Inspector Raj in India’s IT sector

Updated on Nov 6, 2020 13:45 IST

How government policies are harming the IT sector | Opinion

Everyone I know prefers to call me over WhatsApp, Skype or any one of a number of data-based call services because the regular voice network cannot be trusted

Updated on Aug 12, 2020 14:12 IST

Understand the flip side of data personalisation

A video grab from footage broadcast by the UK Parliament's Parliamentary Recording Unit shows Canadian data analytics expert Christopher Wylie who worked at Cambridge Analytica appears as a witness before the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of members of the British parliament at the Houses of Parliament, London, March 27

Updated on Apr 5, 2018 11:07 IST

Why the Competition Commission of India is wrong in penalising Google

In the modern connected world, customers benefit from network effects. The larger an Internet company grows the better it can serve its customers by leveraging data at scale to offer features and services that are otherwise impossible to achieve.

Updated on Feb 12, 2018 06:23 IST

Shutting down Aadhaar is not the answer to the privacy question

Aadhaar is an identity project that has been introduced into a country that had no reliable means of identity. When you provide identity to a person who has never had it before, you strip him of the anonymity of the crowds.

Updated on Jan 22, 2018 13:50 IST

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