Your client is a caller ID mobile app (reference case: Truecaller). The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 has been enacted. It will come in force in 2 months' time. The client has asked you: Currently, we get permission from our users to access their phone books. This is a mandatory permission. Which means they cannot use the app without giving us this access. We get the names and phone numbers of their contacts (who may or may not be our customers themselves). This is one of the ways in which we are able to assign a name to a number. And when our other users get calls from a number not in their contacts, we display the name associated with that number. How do we bring this in line with the new law- specifically the provisions on notice, consent and deemed consent?
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You are in the Policy team at a firm. You meet with officials from the Emerging Technologies division at the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY). They are coordinating efforts for India’s position as Chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). They need assistance on formulation of themes that India can propose at the Annual GPAI Summit in December 2023. Prepare a note on the themes for GPAI that India can propose to Member states which will bolster India’s position as incoming Chair and set the stage for a successful tenure that fosters international cooperation and innovation. The themes should play to India’s strengths and also be in consonance with GPAI’s overarching principles. Each themes should have at least one actionable proposal on which Member states can collaborate with each other to promote responsible development and use of AI. Please also mention the proposed outcome that India hopes to achieve by suggesting the said proposals.
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You are a public policy manager at the on-demand content platform, Ullu In light of several complaints and controversies around shows on your platform, your boss wants to evaluate establishing an independent External Content Advisory Board for Ullu. Members of this board will come from varied backgrounds. and will work independently of the platform, and offer unbiased recommendations. i) What should be the composition of such a board and why? What functions will it perform? (ii) Prepare a SWOT analysis on establishing such a board.
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