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Privacy 3.0 : Unlocking Our Data-Driven Future

By Rahul Matthan

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About the book

Our personal space is dear to us all. We live our lives in full public view on social media – posting photos of the food we just ate or even expressing intimate feelings for our loved ones – but there are still things we would rather not share with the world. Indeed, it is privacy that sets man apart from the animals who must stick together in the wild for their own safety. But mankind was not born private. Our primitive ancestors too lived in large groups, every member of which knew all there was to know about the others. Privacy evolved over time as man developed technologies to wall himself off, even as he remained part of the society at large. But just as some technologies enhanced privacy, others – such as the printing press or the portable camera – chipped away at it. Every time this happened, man opposed the technology at first but made his peace with it eventually to benefit from the obvious good it could do. We are at a similar crossroads today with data technologies. Aadhaar is one example of the many ways in which we have begun to use data in everything we do. While it has made it far easier to avail of services from the government and private enterprises than ever before, there are those who rightly worry about people’s private data being put to ill use – and, worse, without consent. But this anxiety is no different from that which we felt during the teething troubles of every previous technology we adopted. What we really need is a new framework that unlocks the full potential of a data-driven future while still safeguarding what we hold most dear – our privacy. In this pioneering work, technology lawyer Rahul Matthan traces the changing notions of privacy from the earliest times to its evolution through landmark cases in the UK, US and India. In the process, he re-imagines the way we should be thinking about privacy today if we are to take full advantage of modern data technologies, cautioning against getting so obsessed with their potential harms that we design our laws to prevent us from benefiting from them at all.

Pages: 240

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

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.

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