TIL that Cory Doctorow (who's on this list, as longtime members will recall) published a paper in the Indian Journal of Law and Technology, with some NLSIU collaborators. Since we have lots of people interested in tech policy (as well as lots of lawyers, including NLSIU grads, as well as Cory himself) on this list, I thought it would be interesting to see what the folks here think.
Udhay <q> I was contacted by the Indian Journal of Law and Technology to see whether I could write something on similar lines, focused on the situation in India. Well, it took two years, but we've finally published it: "Securing Privacy Without Monopoly In India: Juxtaposing Interoperability With Indian Data Protection": https://www.ijlt.in/post/securing-privacy-without-monopoly-in-india-juxtaposing-interoperability-with-indian-data-protection The Indian case for interop incorporates the US and EU case, but with some fascinating wrinkles. First, there are the broad benefits of allowing technology adaptation by people who are often left out of the frame when tools and systems are designed. As the saying goes, "nothing about us without us" – the users of technology know more about their needs than any designer can hope to understand. That's doubly true when designers are wealthy geeks in Silicon Valley and the users are poor people in the global south. India, of course, has its own highly advanced domestic tech sector, who could be a source of extensive expertise in adapting technologies from US and other offshore tech giants for local needs. India also has a complex and highly contested privacy regime, which is in extreme flux between high court decisions, regulatory interventions, and legislation, both passed and pending. Finally, there's India's long tradition of ingenious technological adaptations, locally called jugaad, roughly equivalent to the English "mend and make do." While every culture has its own way of celebrating clever hacks, this kind of ingenuity is elevated to an art form in the global south: think of jua kali (Swahili), gambiarra (Brazilian Portuguese) and bricolage (France and its former colonies). It took a long time to get this out, but I'm really happy with it, and I'm extremely grateful to my brilliant and hardworking research assistants from National Law School of India University: Dhruv Jain, Kshitij Goyal and Sarthak Wadhwa. </q> -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com))
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