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Rahul Matthan

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ARTICLES BY RAHUL MATTHAN

The real benefit or Assembly Theory will be in the development of a governance framework that evolves in lock-step with technological complexity.

Let’s use Assembly Theory to regulate rapidly evolving technologies

4 min read . 11 Mar 2025

Affordable devices like Fitbit, Oura and Whoop now provide streams of personal health data in real-time, and insurers have begun to capitalize on this.

Rahul Matthan: Data-rich insurance models could fail beyond a point

4 min read . 04 Mar 2025

It's clear now that consent managers under the DPDP Act have much more to do than just map consent to the ways in which personal data can be used.

We finally have clarity on the role of consent managers under our privacy law

4 min read . 25 Feb 2025

The core design of our energy ecosystem hasn’t changed in over a century.

Network of networks: Data systems can transform India’s electricity supply

4 min read . 18 Feb 2025

Our virtual town halls, once alive with diverse viewpoints, have fallen silent—save for the voices of the loudest and most aggressive. (Pixabay)

Is anybody out there? The once bustling internet has been falling silent

4 min read . 11 Feb 2025

The UIDAI offers various features (such as virtual ID and offline verification) that could further safeguard privacy. (Mint)

Private companies can use Aadhaar infrastructure for identity checks again

4 min read . 04 Feb 2025

Instead of crippling the Chinese AI industry, the US policy of strategic containment has spurred them to improve their capabilities to the point where they have taken global leadership in the field.

What America’s technology denial and China’s AI success imply for India

4 min read . 28 Jan 2025

It’s time to take stock of our endeavours to see whether our efforts have borne fruit.

India’s drive to globalize Digital Public Infrastructure: Time to take stock

4 min read . 21 Jan 2025

The report relies too heavily on regulatory principles developed by countries of the Global North.

The IT ministry’s AI regulation report is broadly welcome but not entirely

4 min read . 14 Jan 2025

Despite the concerns, the rules have shone a light on many aspects of the DPDP Act. (AFP)

India’s Digital Data Protection rules: A story of hits and misses

4 min read . 05 Jan 2025

Knee-jerk regulatory responses will only end up retarding the progress that we have to make in AI. (HT_PRINT)

We should deal with technological transformations with utmost care

4 min read . 24 Dec 2024

Medical systems need to be redesigned so that patient information is kept hidden by default and only made available to the medical professionals directly attending them.

Anonymized medical data should be given an additional privacy shield

4 min read . 17 Dec 2024

We should review our laws to make sure existing legal provisions do not accidentally come in the way of our AI ambitions.

Don’t jump the gun: We may not need a new law to shield us from AI harms

4 min read . 10 Dec 2024

Thanks to increasingly aggressive agricultural expansion, Brazil faces a significant deforestation challenge. (AFP)

Digital public infrastructure could help the world fight climate change

4 min read . 05 Dec 2024

AI is a probabilistic system but our legislative systems are not designed to deal with such systems.

We have to update legislative frameworks for an age of artificial intelligence

4 min read . 26 Nov 2024

India’s Account Aggregator system has been built around a technology construct that embodies privacy principles in a digital format.

Let’s plug a privacy loophole in India’s account aggregator system

4 min read . 19 Nov 2024

The ‘intelligence’ of current AI models comes from their ability to compress information and predict the most appropriate answers to our prompts.

AI in law: We’ll be left staring at a human talent scarcity of our own

5 min read . 12 Nov 2024

We’ve all posted comments on a social network only to have it resurface elsewhere—more often than not quoted entirely out of context.

Online privacy: Is staying offline the only way to fully secure it?

4 min read . 05 Nov 2024

While search engines point us to websites that contain answers to our questions, AI extracts the actual answers for us from within those webpages.

Can AI chatbots be manipulated? A new industry promises just that.

4 min read . 29 Oct 2024

A camera trap is just a regular camera that has been modified so that recording is triggered by a photo-electric sensor.

Why should wildlife authorities object to camera traps on private property?

5 min read . 22 Oct 2024