Opacity by design: The politics of data in India’s platform state
By: Tewari, Avantika
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BookPublisher: Economic & Political Weekly Description: 60(51), Dec 20, 2025: p.14-16.
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Economic & Political WeeklySummary: 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
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Indian Institute of Public Administration | 60(51), Dec 20, 2025: p.14-16 | Available | AR138156 |
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
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