Privacy and security in large public service applications
- Privacy In Practice Strategies For Data Management In India. Debayan Gupta. ORF, January 24, 2025.
- Post-quantum Cryptography: Securing Data in the Age of Quantum Computers. Debayan Gupta. in The Hindu, July 31, 2023.
- Gaps in data protection. Subhashis Banerjee. July 9, 2023. in The Indian Express, July 14, 2023.
- Missing rigour and due diligence. Subhashis Banerjee. June 18, 2023. in The Indian Express, June 19, 2023.
- Blockchain and prudence. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. February 2022. in The Indian Express, February 25, 2022.
- On health data infrastructure design. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Ambuj Sagar and Subhashis Banerjee. A shorter version appeared in in The Indian Express, on March 8, 2021.
- To End or Not to End Privacy. Debayan Gupta. in OpenAxis , October 7, 2021.
- Digital surveillance and Constitutional morality. Subhashis Banerjee. July 26, 2021. in The Indian Express, July 27, 2021.
- “Mark as Read” to “Mark has Read” : Privacy Policies in India, Debayan Gupta, in OpenAxis, February 5, 2021.
- Privacy Supreme|where the mind is without fear: Using encryption to ensure freedom. Debayan Gupta. Internet Freedom Foundation , August 15, 2020.
- Observations on the people’s tribunal on Aadhaar-related issues. Subhashis Banerjee. March 2020.
- NPR and NRC: privilege completeness over soundness. Subhashis Banerjee and Om Damani. March 2020.
- On the proportionality of Aarogya Setu. Subhashis Banerjee, Bhaskaran Raman and Subodh Sharma. May 2020. in the LiveMint, July 8, 2020.
AI and Trust
- What AI Still Cannot Do: The limits that will matter most in 2026. Professor Lipika Dey. moneycontrol, January 12, 2026.
- Tech’s ‘Sovereignty Washing’ in Europe Will Ripple in the Global South, Professor Arun M. Sukumar. LAWFARE. October 9, 2025.
- When Machines Imagine: The Promise and Risk , Subhashis Banerjee. The INDIA FORUM. June 19, 2025.
- The Trust Deficit In Artificial Intelligence, Subhashis Banerjee, July 16, 2025. News 18.
- Advancements in AI and ML are reshaping how industries operate, Lipika Dey. moneycontrol, June 20, 2025.
- Indic Large Language Models will be transformative, Lipika Dey. moneycontrol, May 22, 2025.
- Can machines think?.Professor Subhashis Banerjee. The Hindu, April 11, 2024.
Elections and digitalisation
- Trust and the machine: the nuances of electronic voting.Professor Subhashis Banerjee. The Hindu, December 1, 2023.
- Barking up the wrong tree. Subhashis Banerjee. January 8, 2023. in The Hindu, January 11, 2023.
- Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021: a bill passed in haste. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. December 2021. in The Indian Express, December 23, 2021.
- Blockchain vs public bulletin board for integrity of elections and electoral rolls. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. July 2021. in The India Forum, July 30, 2021.
- Report of the Citizens’ Commission on Elections (Volume II: Are elections in India free and fair?). Chapters by Harsh Mander and Venkatesan Ramani, Anjali Bharadwaj, Jagdeep Chhokar, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sanjay Kumar. An end-note on the chapter on electoral rolls by Subhashis Banerjee. March 15, 2021.
Ethics of AI
- The Future is Equal: Strategies to closethe gender gap in AI, Lipika Dey. moneycontrol, April 15, 2025.
- The conundrum of ChatGPT. Subhashis Banerjee. March 16, 2023. in The Hindu Businessline. April 10, 2023.
- ChatGPT Interviewed: ‘My Strengths and My Limits’. Subhashis Banerjee. February 2023. in The India Forum. February 14, 2023.
- Apps for COVID: to do or not to do. Subhashis Banerjee, Bhaskaran Raman and Subodh Sharma. in The Wire, April 2020.
Earlier commentaries
Privacy and security in large public service applications
- Where goes Aadhaar? Subhashis Banerjee. July 2019. in The Indian Express, July 15, 2019.
- An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. August 2018. in Ideas for India, September 2018.
- On health data architecture design: talk at Law Economics Policy Conference on Health 2018. Subhashis Banerjee. November 2018.
- Comments on the data protection bill. Subhashis Banerjee. September 2018. in The Indian Express, December 6, 2018.
- A judgment without aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee. December 2018. in Law School Policy Review, December 23, 2018.
- Authorisation and access control architecture as a framework for data and privacy protection. Subhashis Banerjee. January 2018; updated April, 2018 (Submitted in response to B N Srikrishna committee’s white paper on a data protection framework).
- An architecture for privacy. Subhashis Banerjee. in the Indian Express on May 5, 2018 and was reproduced in Metamorphoses on May 18, 2018.
- Aadhaar needs to pass a stringent welfare test. Subhashis Banerjee. October 2017. in The Indian Express, November 2017.
- An argument without Aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Indian Express, July 2017.
- It’s time to disentangle the complex Aadhaar debate. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Wire, April 2017. Here, here and here are some reactions.
- There is No Magical On-Off Switch That Will Allow India to Transform Into a Cashless Economy. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Wire, Business Standard, December 2016.
