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Agencies conducting such checks skim through creators’ social media profiles on all platforms, employment history and financial filings. They even look for any criminal record.

Technological complexity in digital spheres keeps growing. We need regulatory frameworks that evolve in lock-step with the evolution of technologies. We’ll get better outcomes. Here’s how.

India is faring rather well on its adoption of digital technology in global comparison. This could spell productivity gains and also better-balanced development—if we fix regional skews.

Rules issued under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act have thankfully ended confusion over consent protocols and laid down how data will be shared across sectors. Hint: Think of the account aggregator framework.

The move follows an Estonia-Luxembourg agreement of 2015 which saw Estonia store a digitized copy of its citizens’ data in Luxembourg.

DPI is under discussion across the world, with India’s UPI held up as an example of its value. While DPI has enormous benefits, its definition needs clarity. We also need clear-cut measures to prevent its misuse.

The rules underline that parents and guardians of underage minors will need to verify and authenticate themselves as responsible for the underage users

The Ayushman Bharat Digital Health Mission has an anonymizer module. For best use to be made of aggregate anonymized data, a secure data environment system should be adopted to keep our health records all the more secure.

Rising instances of data breaches across the online ecosystem make it imperative that the privacy shield passed by Parliament is quickly put in place. Even after the awaited rules are notified, it’ll be a while before citizens benefit.

The Brazilian government could offer the world its first climate change DPI initiative at CoP-30 next year. A digital tool that verifies ground-level compliance with green obligations can be used by countries to address their sustainability goals.