Vidit Agrawal

Academician, Aspiring Author and Educationist | Law, Society & Technology|

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#SafeHarbour #PlatformRegulation #AlgorithmicAccountability #DigitalGovernance #FreeSpeech

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1/ Every democracy must eventually confront a question India is now facing.

Who is accountable for the power to decide what reaches the public, and what does not. 🧵

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6/ This must be seriously debated and actualised.

To prevent the abuse of social media platforms. And to guard against subtle interference in the domestic affairs of a democratic India.

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@aravind People living in posh areas wash their car on open road in front of their house and water logging happens on road resulting in broken road overtime and people complain about bad infra. Hypocrisy at its peak in India.

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@volklub I think Tata engines have never been a problem as such but over all quality control and reliability coupled with poor after sales service have been a major concern for Tata car buyers. Honda engine only may not help much if overall these issues are not addressed.

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@ByRakeshSimha Whatever fine is imposed, it will be peanuts for them. For instance, Entire net worth of Google is more than India’s GDP.

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@AmitWorldPeace Consumers want reliability.

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@daarshik108 It’s a wonderful thread and insightful. However, few people have commented that no one can start this on his own rather initiation is required under the guidance of a Guru. Kindly enlighten on this aspect too.

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@AUTOINTELIN But what about predictable certainty and after sales service? No one mentioned that. Response is mixed at best. Few success stories and few complaints whereas majority enjoy silently.

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Simple takeaway.

In India, AI cannot freely feed on your identifiable personal data.

Only truly public data and truly anonymous data are open ground for training.

That line is where the real fights will happen.

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Can a company use your personal data to train its AI?

And does Indian law let you say no?

The answer is more precise than most people think. A short thread. 🧵

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So everything turns on one thing. How strong is that anonymisation?

Weak anonymisation that can be reversed pulls the data straight back under the law.

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@NewsArenaIndia Apology or blowing away safe harbour won’t help. Just legislate and regulate algorithms and seek transparency, accountability and audits.