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Forging Uncharted Horizons: Navigating the Risks of AI

With its problem-solving capabilities, Artificial Intelligence (AI) could very well be the unrivalled solution to the most intractable problems of our time. However, AI might not just yet be the icing on the cake we were looking for- there are significant constraints to be considered that prevent it from being a perfect solution to all possible problems, and the debate on ethics of Artificial Intelligence remains ridden with complexities.

Epidemic and Infectious Disease Surveillance

Vol. 57, Issue No. 33, 13 Aug, 2022
Sumitran Basu

The COVID-19 pandemic has seen some Asian countries employ sophisticated mass-surveillance technologies—normally employed to gather intelligence for domestic security purposes—to contain the spread of infection in their populations. There has also been an intrusion of military and allied national security actors into the traditionally civilian domain of public health, in the form of disease surveillance. These emerging developments in the pandemic response provide a pretext for a limited historical review, beginning from World War II to the present, centred on the intersection between infectious disease surveillance and control, national security, and military in the Western world.

Extending the Regime of Incarceration

Vol. 57, Issue No. 16, 16 Apr, 2022
Usha Ramanathan

Collecting intimate personal information in criminal proceedings leads to a regime of suspicion and surveillance.

 

Where Is All Our Health Data Going?

Vol. 55, Issue No. 1, 04 Jan, 2020
Sundeep Sahay, Arunima Mukherjee

Multiple initiatives going on in India regarding the collection of digital personal health data are analysed, and the question of how the data is being used is examined. While such data could facilitate healthcare and referral services, a strong and sensitive governance structure is needed to be in place to enable its optimal use and to ensure that the data is not used to further the agendas of surveillance and control.

 

Protection vs Privacy: The Debate on Surveillance and Digital Rights in India

Governments across the world have exploited the gap between the pace of technological development and the formulation of laws to infringe on the rights of citizens.

What Are the Political Implications of Narendra Modi’s #MainBhiChowkidar Campaign?

Vol. 54, Issue No. 20, 18 May, 2019
This article highlights the incongruity involved in the Prime Minister of a nation proclaiming himself to be a “chowkidar.” But who will watch the watchmen?

In Election Season, Privacy Demands a Public Voice

Vol. 54, Issue No. 16, 20 Apr, 2019
Privacy is a concern for everyone, voters should scrutinise poll promises and examine the track record of previous governments when it comes to privacy protection. This article presents an overview of privacy related legislation and outlines what should be done about it by the next government.

India's Surveillance Laws, Then and Now: Has Anything Changed?

This reading list looks at A G Noorani's reportage in EPW on the debate surrounding surveillance laws in India in the 1980s.

What Enables the State to Disregard the Right to Privacy?

Does the nebulous state of data protection laws in India benefit the government?

At the Brunt of Tuberculosis

Vol. 51, Issue No. 42, 15 Oct, 2016

Why is India firefighting tuberculosis without adequate data surveillance?

Information Technology Act

Vol. 38, Issue No. 34, 23 Aug, 2003
Sruti Chaganti

The Information Technology Act raises very real concerns. It demonstrates a legislature deeply sceptical of the internet, rooted in the conventions of the past, yet battling with the need for an information technology law in the present-day circumstances. This straddling of the known and the unknown has strange results. In its desperate need to bring in some security for activity on the net, it relies heavily on the executive, little realising that it can result in violation of civil rights particularly, in the light of India's infamous emergency. The absolute control it attempts to achieve over certifying authorities is worrying for the same reason. The act lacks balance.

Disease Control : More than Microbes

Vol. 38, Issue No. 18, 03 May, 2003

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