Tewari, Avantika
Opacity by design: The politics of data in India’s platform state - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(51), Dec 20, 2025: p.14-16
India’s data regime has been shaped by fundamentally contradictory imaginaries —privacy as a right, data as a national asset, and consent as a governance fiction. The right to information and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, despite appearing antagonistic, are unified by a deeper misdiagnosis: both treat privacy and information as juridical categories rather than as products of India’s platformised governance architecture.- Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/51/commentary/opacity-design.html
Opacity by design: The politics of data in India’s platform state - Economic & Political Weekly - 60(51), Dec 20, 2025: p.14-16
India’s data regime has been shaped by fundamentally contradictory imaginaries —privacy as a right, data as a national asset, and consent as a governance fiction. The right to information and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, despite appearing antagonistic, are unified by a deeper misdiagnosis: both treat privacy and information as juridical categories rather than as products of India’s platformised governance architecture.- Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/51/commentary/opacity-design.html