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Rahul Matthan

Mint columnist

Rahul Matthan is a partner at Trilegal and the author of ‘The Third Way: India’s Revolutionary Approach to Data Governance’. His X handle is @matthan.

ARTICLES BY RAHUL MATTHAN

India could leverage Aadhaar to generate zero-knowledge tokens of proof that verify a user’s age without revealing any other personal information. (Mint)

Rahul Matthan: How age tokens to get past age gates favour free speech

4 min read . 24 Jun 2025

Exposure to existing works has always been essential for new expression. (Museum of Art and Photography)

Rahul Matthan: AI models aren’t copycats but learners just like us

4 min read . 17 Jun 2025

Digipin is designed to work with all Global Navigation Satellite Systems, but it is noteworthy that it will work with India’s own NavIC satellite constellation. (Pixabay)

Rahul Matthan: Digipin will displace workarounds to getting around

4 min read . 10 Jun 2025

We need to amend our intermediary liability law to include a US Digital Millennium Copyright Act-style counter-notice window. (Bloomberg)

Rahul Matthan: Shield innovation in content creation from intimidation

4 min read . 03 Jun 2025

Forgery is most effective when not just the artefact but the entire backstory has been carefully constructed to support its authenticity. (iStockphoto)

Rahul Matthan: Brace for a wave of AI-enabled criminal enterprise

4 min read . 27 May 2025

The Living Table at Disfrutar (Photos by Rahul Matthan)

Disfrutar versus Noma: A tale of two Michelin meals

7 min read . 24 May 2025

Our current approach to data protection is now more than half a century old.

Rahul Matthan: Don’t let data privacy safeguards work against us

4 min read . 20 May 2025

All the contents of our DigiLocker—digital versions of our driver’s licences, PAN cards and other government documents—are verifiable credentials.

Use verifiable credentials to grant us agency over our digital data

4 min read . 13 May 2025

Equitable rules on the development of this technology, its transboundary use and genetic resource sharing are necessary. (via REUTERS)

Genetically engineered animals are here: Regulation mustn’t get left behind

4 min read . 06 May 2025

Heuristics keep us going, helping us navigate life in a complex world, but when they sometimes backfire, we call them biases. (Pixabay)

Biases aren’t useless: Let’s cut AI some slack on these

4 min read . 29 Apr 2025

Enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) are perfect for data centres that need high-quality uninterrupted power supply and connectivity that is good enough for low-latency applications. (WSJ)

Rely on modern geothermal energy to power our AI ambitions

4 min read . 22 Apr 2025

In 2025, no one thought much of AI agents. (AFP)

Letter from 2035: Did we give Agentic AI too much agency?

5 min read . 08 Apr 2025

As CoP returns to the country where global discussion on climate first began, it does so at a particularly challenging time in its history.

Time for the Global South to leverage DPI for climate action

4 min read . 01 Apr 2025

A portal for transparency around take-downs can only be a good thing. (AFP)

X vs Sahyog: Free-speech curbs must have constitutional validity

4 min read . 25 Mar 2025

Between a third to half the food produced by developing countries spoils before it gets to those who need it.

Food security: Let clean-tech innovation lead the way

4 min read . 18 Mar 2025

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