Fight ‘data colonisation’ with ‘data sovereignty’: ABVP’s Sunil Ambekar

Source:- https://indianexpress.com/article/india/fight-data-colonisation-with-data-sovereignty-abvps-sunil-ambekar-5765543/ He said that centuries of foreign rule in India has taken away the country’s sovereignty and “pursuit of supremacy”, and the next frontier of this competition is over data. Sunil Ambekar, national organising secretary of the RSS’s student wing ABVP. In the backdrop of a pending data protection Bill that mandates increased data […]

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#NAMAprivacy: BJP’s Vinit Goenka on data localisation, sovereignty, and 800 years of slavery

“You really want your grandson to become a delivery boy?” Vinit Goenka, the former National Co-convener of the BJP’s IT Cell, and a member of the Center for Raily Information Services (CRIS), said at MediaNama’s discussion on India’s Data Protection Law in New Delhi on 23rd of August. Goenka exhorted the audience to accept data […]

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