Data Governance and Democratic Ethos

Justice BN Srikrishna and Rahul Matthan of Trilegal discuss the conceptual and practical issues in India’s privacy and data protection landscape, and their broader implications for our democratic framework. The conversation, moderated by Dr Ananth Padmanabhan, focuses on data-driven mechanisms of contact tracing and pandemic control, privacy and regulatory safeguards, the broader use of data as part of legal technologies, governance, and accountability issues, and the role of data in building an effective democracy.