The Supreme Court's latest gig-worker hearing turned on a single question: who is responsible when a 'fair-distribution' algorithm makes a rider unhirable?
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Privacy, surveillance, biometric ID, platform power and the law around them.
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At least thirteen Indian citizens from West Bengal were deported to Bangladesh in 2025 without an inquiry. Sunali Khatun’s case shows how a process designed to remove non-citizens reached her — and what the Calcutta High Court has ordered the state to fix.
Travel bookings, banking apps, even a chai-vendor loyalty programme — Aadhaar is steadily becoming the required ID, not the recommended one. We tracked one citizen for a week.
Decode looked at the permissions and SDK list of three of the most-installed school apps in Indian metros. The results are not what the consent screen suggested.
The DPDP Act 2023 changes what companies can do with your personal data. A plain-language explainer on what it covers, what it doesn't, and why enforcement is still missing.