Rahul Matthan

RAHUL MATTHAN is a partner with the law firm Trilegal and heads its TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) practice.He has been working on issues relating to technology law for over two decades and has been involved in a number of policy initiatives at the intersection of law, society and technology. He was engaged in some of the early drafting of a privacy law that, for various reasons, eventually did not get enacted. He has served as a member of the Technology Sub-Committee of the Reserve Bank of India's Committee on Household Finance, where he authored the section on privacy. More recently, his Discussion Document entitled 'Beyond Consent – A New Paradigm for Data Protection' explored a new way of addressing the privacy challenges in the data world. Rahul advises on a wide range of regulatory issues, including in relation to privacy, map regulation, fintech, encryption, spectrum regulation, e-commerce, sharing economy, biotech, digital content and streaming media. He was included in Mint's list of '25 People Who Matter in Indian E-Commerce'. He is a frequent speaker and has a weekly column in Mint called 'Ex Machina', where he writes on technology, law and everything in between. Rahul lives in Bangalore with his wife Ahalya, their eleven-year-old son Dhruv and their two dogs Coco and Zoey.