Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India

Seoane, Maximiliano Vila

doi:10.1080/01436597.2021.1915122

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“…Glasze et al (2023), on the other hand, studied Russia’s emphasis on the self-governance of the internet and argued that the origins of this lie in the rejection of US tech hegemony. To some extent, a similar trend has been noted in India, where there is evidence of a trend towards restricting cross border data flows, which Vila Seoane (2021) refers to as ‘data securitisation’. These restrictions are characterised both by the internal demands for digital self-reliance as well as changing geopolitics, particularly growing tensions with China.…”

Section: Digital Sovereignty Versus Digital Protectionism: Different ...supporting

confidence: 54%

Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India

Kumar

Thussu

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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TikTok, one of the most downloaded apps in the world, has been banned in India since June 2020, following military clashes on the India-China border. This article focuses on government narratives of the TikTok ban in the Indian media and situates the issue within the broader geopolitical framework of deteriorating Sino-Indian relations and attempts for digital sovereignty. At a time of strong nationalist discourses dominating the political and social communication in India, it is perhaps unsurprising that the narratives have been seen outside India as protectionism. However, this paper argues that the digital sovereignty in the Indian context is not exclusionary but aims to create a robust digital infrastructure that is critical for economic development and self-reliance. Highlighting the lessons from India, this paper concludes the following: (i) digital sovereignty is a form of discourse which does not imply any specific policy, (ii) digital sovereignty relates to user control over their data, however, the role and limits of the State is not clearly defined and (iii) digital platforms are highly vulnerable to changing geopolitics in which their existence is not determined by user-platform interactions but by international relations.

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Section: Digital Sovereignty Versus Digital Protectionism: Different ...supporting

confidence: 54%

Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India

Kumar

Thussu

2023

Media, Culture & Society

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“…These data localization measures have received huge support from foreign and local interest groups with the nationalist BJP at the forefront in promoting these measures. The SJM along with small, medium and large enterprises in India also support data localization highlighting resource nationalism in India to achieve data sovereignty (Seoane, 2021).…”

Section: Data Localization and E-commercementioning

confidence: 62%

“…After Modi came to power in New Delhi, GoI has initiated various strategies to enhance and strengthen India's move towards digitalization. For instance, GoI launched the Digital India Initiative aimed at modernizing the Indian bureaucracy 'through the active use of information and communication technologies' (Seoane, 2021(Seoane, , p. 1737. Similarly, the 'Make in India' initiative aims to increase the production of advanced technologies in India.…”

Section: Data Localization and E-commercementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The Srikrishna Committee noted that 'the protection of personal data holds the key to empowerment, progress and innovation' (Srikrishna Committee, 2018, p. 3) and prohibited the transfer of 'critical personal data' from India (Srikrishna Committee, 2018, p. 97) thus necessitating strict data localization to enforce privacy law in the future. According to the report, these measures would lead to the development of local data processing capabilities and digital infrastructures which are fundamental for the development of the country's artificial intelligence ecosystem (Seoane, 2021). Experts say that the policy is similar to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.…”

Section: Data Localization and E-commercementioning

confidence: 99%

“…India's data localization efforts have been criticised by domestic and external interest groups such as the US–India Business Council and US–India Strategic Partnership Forum. Critics argue that data localization threatens human rights, is a barrier to free trade and undermines the liberal principles which are the foundation of India's IT sector (Seoane, 2021).…”

Section: Data Localization and E-commercementioning

confidence: 99%

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Trump and Modi and the ideological, political and economic underpinnings of the India–United States trade dispute

Verma

2023

International Area Studies Review

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This article seeks to provide answers to questions: why did India and the United States have a trade dispute under Trump and Modi administrations, and why were the two countries unable to resolve the trade dispute under Trump and Modi administrations? The article asserts that the primary reason for the trade dispute/disagreements between the two countries is the domestic economic and political environment and ideological considerations in the Trump and Modi administrations. This has manifested itself in a clash between Trump's ‘America first’ stance with the aim of ‘Making America great again’ and Modi's ‘Make in India’ initiative which envisions creating India as a manufacturing powerhouse and increasing the economic prosperity of Indian citizens. The article highlights each country's concerns and grievances regarding the other side's trade policies and what kind of trade access India wants from the United States and vice-versa.

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Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data

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Today, the US pursues the global capture of data (understood as a significant engine of growth) by way of bi- and plurilateral trade agreements. However, the project of securing the global free flow of data has been pursued ever since the dawn of digital telecommunication in the 1960s and the US has made significant legal efforts to institutionalise it. These efforts have two phases: In the first 1970s and 80s “freedom of information” phase, the legal justification (and contestation) of the global free flow of data hinged on imagining data as information, and its exchange as a practice of liberty. The second phase began in the late 1990s and continues today. In this phase, the free flow of data is aligned with a free-trade agenda in the context of first e-commerce and, starting in the 2000s, through attempts at creating a global public domain of personal data for the platform economy. The global free flow of data is an intrinsic aspect of informational capitalism. Assuming a constitutive, but not commanding role for law in informational capitalism, we conclude that the US attempt at ensuring free flow for its informational corporations is neither an entirely contingent nor a necessary outcome. It is a product of legal imagination.

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Data securitisation: the challenges of data sovereignty in India

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India

Media, digital sovereignty and geopolitics: the case of the TikTok ban in India

Trump and Modi and the ideological, political and economic underpinnings of the India–United States trade dispute

Legal imagination and the US project of globalising the free flow of data

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