We need to think about all the personal information that is collected and perpetually stored about us and how it could be used to attack us through spear phishing, social engineering and blackmail or extortion. I have written about this extensively. I have also written about a few other topics of interest, such as content distribution, business models and media.

Data Security

• India’s Proposed Data Protection Measures Don’t Do Enough Protect Data or Privacy, The Wire, 03 Aug 2018
• Going Through US Border Security With Nothing to Hide, Medium, 15 Apr 2018
• Time for Data Collectors to Say “No, Thanks!”, ORF Digital Policy Portal, 29 Nov 2017
• What India’s Data Protection Committee Can Learn from US, EU and China, The Wire, 03 Oct 2017. Also published by Business Standard (Paywalled)
• My words of advice for startups: build in data security and privacy from the start, The Wire, 16 Jun 2017
• India’s Website Operators Cannot Delay Further – Turn on HTTPS Already, The Wire, 17 May 2017
• India Inc Needs To Fix Its Numerous and Basic Information Security Flaws Quickly, The Wire, 25 Feb 2017
• Security and Privacy Issues With The Government’s Portal For Missing Children, The Caravan, 15 Sep 2015
• ICICI Bank’s Twitter Service is a privacy nightmare, NewsPie.in, 27 Jan 2015
• ICICI Twitter banking puts all customers at risk, NewsPie.in, 29 Jan 2015

Security Breaches

• Aadhaar: the Indian biometric ID system has potential but presents many concerns, Heinrich Böll Foundation, 18 Feb 2018
• On WannaCry – Governments and Businesses Need to Be Transparent, Indian Express, 24 May 2017
• 2016 Security Summary, The Wire, 31 Dec 2016
• Is India Prepared for a Cyber Attack? Suckfly and Other Past Responses Say No, The Wire, 21 Sep 2016
• #DestroyTheAadhaar or Reform the Aadhaar?, The Wire, 07 Apr 2017

Media

• For Indian Media, Kashmir is a Minor Story, The Hoot, 22 Jul 2016
• Give us more value than just press releases, The Hoot, 3 Jun 2014

Startups and Business

• Zomato is about food something online?, LinkedIn Pulse, 8 Jan 2016
• Netflix’s Global Expansion Is An Even Bigger Deal Than People Say It Is, LinkedIn Pulse, 8 Jan 8
• New Business Model For News, Center for Investigative Journalism, Oct 2015 

Child Rights

• Child Labourers Will Not Benefit From The Proposed Amendments To The Child Labour Law, But The Tobacco Industry Might, The Caravan, 15 May 2015