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Technology, Security, and Privacy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - btw govt, companies, and citizen
      - for Big Data
      - information asymmetry
        
        eroded
        
        very spirit of democracy
        
        limiting the unbiased
        
        communication of ideas
    - - brough us doorstep
        
        delivery of extraordinary
        
        range of goods and services and entertainment
      - Internet
        
        now controlled
        
        by few gigantic tech companies
      - allowed
        
        media and economic power
        
        to be consolidated stealthily
        
        into the hand of Big Tech firms
      - recent events in US
        
        shut down a sitting US president
        
        without due process
        
        alerted us
        
        to their unchecked power
  - - - last year reported
      - huge data theft
        
        from FB & Twitter
        
        by third party malicious apps
- - - - have not enacted
      - on Data Privacy of Individuals
      - people suffered due to data theft
      - Present legal framework
        
        leaves the menaces outside
        
        the ambit of election laws
        
        because
        
        framed in a time and space was
        
        primitive when compared
        
        contemporary technological advancement
    - - Private data analytics
      - companies have emerged
      - to exploit the electoral process
      - objective
        
        customising political messaging
        
        not illegal but unlawful
        
        indulge
        
        unauthorised data mining
        
        collection by Industry
    - - carry out digital form of warfare
      - propaganda and fake news
    - - Govt Policy on National Security
        
        based on advance strategic assessment
        
        rather than reactive basis
        
        should be gatekeeper
        
        balance for
        
        technology
        
        security
        
        privacy
        
        for regulation not surveillance
    - - Army
        
        significantly improved
        
        its electronic surveillance
        
        along the LoC
        
        to check infiltration
        
        work on converting
        
        existing border
        
        fence into a smart fence
        
        integrated with several
        
        sensors is under way
      - Hybrid model
        
        now being adoped
      - fence integrated with
        
        LIDAR sensors
        
        Light Detection and Ranging
        
        infrared sensors and
        
        cameras among others
    - - BOLD-QIT
        
        install technical system
        
        under
        
        Comprehensive Integrated Border Management System (CIBMS)
        
        CIBMS
        
        integration of manpower
        
        Sensors and command
        
        control to improve
        
        situtional awareness and
        
        facilitate quick
        
        response to emerging situations
        
        enable
        
        Border Security Force to equip
        
        Indo-Bangla borders
        
        with different kind of sensors
    - - Social media platforms
        
        have the power to
        
        shape narratives
        
        silence opinions by playing
        
        the role of censor and publisher
        
        therefore
        
        incite public behaviour
        
        way ahead
        
        need to evaluate
        
        how to enable right to free speech
        
        on social media platforms
        
        as per Art 19
      - pricing and promotion decision
        
        subtly favour some merchants
        
        and their own label products
      - takes
        
        full advantage of country´s prosperity
        
        yet makes
        
        limited tax contributions
      - Way ahead
        
        enages in competitive practices
        
        require detailed scrutiny by
        
        Competition Commission of India
        
        need to ensure
        
        close gaps across laws such as
        
        Telegraph Act, the TRAI Act,
        
        IT Act, IT intermediary guidelines
        
        proposed Data Protection Act
        
        Huge public outcry
        
        and subsequent govt action
        
        delayed recent changes of privacy policy
        
        btw WhatsApp and FB
      - Internet Firms
        
        resorted personalized ads
        
        and 3rd part sharing
        
        of personal information
        
        to their users
        
        for monetization purposes
        
        challenges
        
        regulating these firms
        
        from abusing their monopoly power
        
        while at same time
        
        encouraging the positive
        
        externalities and consumer surplus
        
        they create
        
        Due to strong network effects
        
        not possible to ban
        
        or curtail these services
  - - - More Than 1.3 million
        
        Credit & Debit Card details
        
        from Indian Banks
      - data of 6.8 million
        
        users from
        
        Indian-health care website
        
        stolen
  - - - Time of fear
      - uncertainty
        
        provided fertile ground
        
        for disinformation to foster
      - Fake Whatsapp
        
        forwards triggered
        
        primitive "US v/s THEM"
        
        group mentality
        
        manifested in Delhi riots
- - - - with expert on
        
        cyber and Internet laws
        
        IT, data management, data science
        
        data security, public administration and national security,
        
        involving civil society
      - can be a effective antidote
      - to unregulated technological disruptions