privacy

Mrs. Raunak Gupta & Ms. Prerna Singh ABSTRACT In the digital world of the globalised world, personal information is now both an asset and a liability in the digital world. As one of the largest digital societies across the globe, India faces certain challenges that are unique to finding the balance between the promotion of technology and the preservation of basic rights. This paper focuses on…

This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Write About Gemma 4 Most posts about new models focus on benchmarks, setup commands, or a fast comparison table. Gemma 4 deserves a better kind of explanation because it is not just another model release to skim and forget. It feels more like a practical local AI stack for developers who care about privacy, multimodal workflows, long-context reasoni…

K. Anu Priyanka, PhD Scholar, Tamil Nadu Dr. Ambedkar Law University Chennai ABSTRACT When a child in Chennai opens DIKSHA to study or a teenager in Mumbai scrolls through Instagram before bed neither of them knows that every click, every pause and every search is being recorded, stored and in many cases sold. India’s lawmakers saw this problem and tried to address it through Section 9 of the Dig…

At the end of last month, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chatrie v. United States . The case involves the use of a geofence warrant , which police use to demand information on all cellphones within a certain area and period of time. The outcome of the case, which revolves around Fourth Amendment questions, could have profound implications for location tracking and privacy in the digital…

A clinician dictates notes to an ambient scribe. A nurse pastes a discharge summary into ChatGPT to “make it sound friendlier.” An AI agent quietly queries the EHR to prep a chart. Each of these moments are increasingly routine, and each can introduce PHI exposure that your existing controls weren’t designed to catch. That is ... Read more » The post AI and patient privacy: Risks, challenges, and…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly adopted across healthcare applications, including clinical decision support and medical documentation systems. However, their deployment in medical settings raises significant privacy and security concerns due to the sensitivity of protected health information and stringent regulatory requirements. Recent studies have shown that LLM-based medical appl…

Divyanshu Bhardwaj, PhD Scholar at CSJMU, Kanpur ABSTRACT The conflict between the ideas of democratic transparency and informational privacy has become the most complicated constitutional paradox in the modern Indian jurisprudence. This paper is a comprehensive doctrinal analysis of the friction created by the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and especially its highly consequential am…

At a global level, the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) brings significant risks to data privacy, prompting the development of legal frameworks. In Latin America, including Mexico, where such frameworks remain emergent, the issue gains particular relevance. This study analyzed how perceptions of AI are associated with perceptions of personal data protection among university-educated…

Handling sensitive data like Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a nightmare for privacy compliance. Whether it's HIPAA in the US or GDPR in Europe, sending a patient's medical history to a cloud-based LLM often triggers a cascade of security audits and potential liabilities. But what if the data never left the user's computer? In this tutorial, we are diving deep into Edge AI and Privacy-preservi…

What I Built DiagramFlowAI is a local-first desktop application (macOS, Windows, and Linux) that transforms natural language descriptions into production-ready architecture diagrams. It intelligently generates standard Mermaid syntax for general workflows, or outputs structured commands mapping to official AWS icons for cloud architectures. The application solves a very specific tension in modern…

Neha Bhuwania, LLM-SOL Presidency University Kishore Kumar D, LLM-SOL Presidency University ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly becoming an integral part of our lives, impacting decision-making in sectors such as health, finance, governance and digital services. AI offers efficiency, innovation and convenience, but it also presents significant privacy challenges. AI’s reliance o…

Mukti Jain, Alliance University ABSTRACT India hosts one of the world's largest and fastest-growing populations of internet users. Yet explosive connectivity has not been matched by an equally explosive growth in digital literacy. This commentary examines a phenomenon that sits at the intersection of platform design, user ignorance, and regulatory inadequacy: the accidental public exposure of pri…

Fidha Farshana, CHRIST (Deemed to be University) ABSTRACT The rapid digitisation of India’s healthcare ecosystem has fundamentally transformed the relationship between patients, medical institutions, and the State. Initiatives such as the Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM), the Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA), telemedicine platforms, and electronic health record infrastructures promise…

Surbhi Kaushal, BALLB, Mumbai University, Mumbai Mahesh Giri, BALLB, Mumbai University, Mumbai ABSTRACT Surveillance has occupied much of the discussion in most parts of the world. This paper critically examines the constitutionality of India’s National Population Register (NPR) and the National Intelligence Grid (NATGRID) framework, with particular emphasis on their implications on the right to …

Lawyer for DoJ argued actions taken in public while in possession of a smartphone afforded no expectation of privacy The US supreme court is considering whether sprawling warrants for smartphone location data infringe on Americans’ privacy rights and violate the constitution. Justices heard opening arguments in Chatrie v United States on Monday that concerned law enforcement’s reliance on so-call…

If I’d only listened to the first half of the Supreme Court’s Monday argument in Chatrie v. United States, a case asking when police can use cellphone data to determine who was present near the site of a crime, I would be convinced that the Court is about to drastically limit Americans’ right to privacy. […]

Akshita Singh, Amity Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Amity University, Noida ABSTRACT This paper examines the constitutional status of data protection in India through a critical analysis of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act). The recognition of the right to privacy as a fundamental right in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India (2017) marked a decisive shi…

Mr. Hanumanthappa GT, Research Scholar, P.G Department of Studies in Law, Karnatak University, Dharwad ABSTRACT The high pace of digitalisation of the state machinery and business processes made the issue of individual data security and the right to privacy even more acute. This paper is a critical analysis of how privacy as a constitutional right has evolved in India, especially in the light of …

Apple Fixes the iOS Bug That Cops Used to Extract Deleted Chat Messages From iPhones For years, a quiet vulnerability sat buried inside iOS — one that most users never knew existed, but that law enforcement agencies around the world quietly relied upon. Apple has now patched the bug, closing a forensic backdoor that allowed investigators (and, theoretically, any attacker with physical device acce…

Apple Fixes the iPhone Bug That Cops Used to Extract Your Deleted Messages If you've ever deleted a sensitive message and assumed it was gone forever — think again. For years, a quiet vulnerability in iOS allowed forensic tools used by law enforcement to recover deleted iMessages, WhatsApp chats, and other communications from iPhones. Apple has now fixed that bug, but the story behind it reveals …