📢Call for Essays on “#AI from the Global Majority” of the United Nations IGF - Internet Governance Forum Coalition on Data and Artificial Intelligence Governance intgovforum.org/en/filedepot_d… *Deadline for submissions is 25 August*

* 🥁🥁 drumroll please* #PrivacySupreme is back! We celebrate the 7th anniversary of the Puttaswamy judgment with an exciting lineup of speakers (more deets soon 👀) 📆August 22, 2024 | 📍IIC, New Delhi REGISTER NOW for some discourse disco 🪩🗣️ 🔗eventbrite.com/e/privacy-supr…

8 days to go for #PrivacySupreme! 🥁🥁 Exploring leisure, loitering & occupying public spaces in the face of pervasive surveillance, policing, & illegal device search/seizures, & what it means for the most vulnerable, Smriti Parsheera joins us for “Future of Loitering” 1/3

Supremely excited to be a part of this year's #PrivacySupreme event from the wonderful folks at Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF). If you are in Delhi and free on Thursday evening, do join us!

Thank you Prateek Waghre disha verma and everyone at team Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) for facilitating this conversation and for all the superb work that you do to preserve digital rights!

This Friday, I will talk about allegory, artificial intelligence and speculative solutionism CSDS, Delhi. Please join if you are in Delhi (zoom link also available).

In good company with Amba Kak!

#PrivacySupreme | UnPanel: Future of Loitering Smriti Parsheera explored loitering, leisure, public spaces under mass CCTV, illegal searches, and urban surveillance, through the lens of privacy and its impact on the vulnerable. | Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=IHcKvW…

Big win for free speech 🚨🚨 Justice Chandurkar, agreeing with the opinion of Justice Patel, has found the IT Rules 2023 amendments unconstitutional, citing violations of Articles 14, 19(1)(a) & (g), and 21. The 2023 fact-checking amendments to the #ITRules struck down! 1/5

Check out the panel with Nicolo Zingales Andrés Calderón Smriti Parsheera & Fernanda Pizarro: (starts at 5:16:00) bit.ly/48nP2w9

Is Privacy a Public Concern? Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has emerged as a transformative concept in modern governance, promising to make public services more accessible, efficient, and inclusive. Often described as "paperless, presenceless, cashless, and consent-based,"

Thanks for sharing, team Interledger Foundation! Was glad to have co-authored this T20 Policy Brief on the payments DPI lessons from Brazil and India with Larissa Magalhães, Bruna Cataldo and Nicolo Zingales. Abstract and link are here 👇

At Panel 1 of #DigitalDelhiconclave on “Privacy- a public concern?”, moderated by our alumnus Naresh Aditya Madhav (Data Protection Officer, Concentrix Corp. for India, SEA & ANZ), Prof. Sambuddho (Faculty, IIIT-Delhi) shares insights about the #DPDPAct. He highlighted the risks of data

My new book with Chitrakshi, Tareekh Pe Justice: Reforms for India's District Courts, is going to be available from March 13th. Many thanks to Dinesh S. Thakur for bankrolling this project and to Elizabeth Kuruvilla at Simon & Schuster India ✨ for publishing us. Link: amzn.in/d/2QuABrx

NEVER imagined that a tweet from a certain account could be the source of so much joy!

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Watched the movie #GhichPich over the weekend. Loved the sweet and simple emotions mixed with the 90s nostalgia of slam books, "proposals" to classmates and those coded missed calls!