Navigating A Janus-Faced Problem: Big Data, Rights And The State
Big data seems to have finally made it to mainstream political debate in India. On the other hand, critics have pointed out that big data and AI based solutions impact individual human rights. This is a good time to recollect the Cambridge Analytica scandal - an instance of how a private Big Data company was able to garner the potential of targeting tailor-cut The same data sets that we create for targetting welfare, making a delivery for efficient or contact tracing amidst the COVID-19 pandemic can thus be used for a variety of other purposes that impacts our individual rights and the future of our political organization. For instance, the response to many of these concerns centre around calls for stronger data protection laws and greater individual control over data and a consent-based framework on the use of data and acting within human rights principles. Assuming that technology reflects preordained or objectively rational and efficient outcomes risks abandoning human rights principles along with democratic decision-making."
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