Commentaries
- Can machines think?. Subhashis Banerjee. March 29, 2024. in The Hindu, April 11, 2024.
- Trust and the machine: the nuances of electronic voting. Subhashis Banerjee. November 15, 2023. in The Indian Express. December 1, 2023.
- Gaps in data protection. Subhashis Banerjee. July 9, 2023. in The Indian Express. July 14, 2023.
- Missing rigour and due diligence. Subhashis Banerjee. June 18, 2023. in The Indian Express. June 19, 2023.
- The conundrum of ChatGPT. Subhashis Banerjee. March 16, 2023. in The Hindu Businessline. April 10, 2023.
- ChatGPT Interviewed: 'My Strengths and My Limits'. Subhashis Banerjee. February 2023. in The India Forum, February 14, 2023.
- Barking up the wrong tree. Subhashis Banerjee. January 8, 2023. in The Hindu, January 11, 2023.
- Blockchain and prudence. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. February 2022. in The Indian Express February 25, 2022.
- Aadhaar-Voter ID Linkage Could Sink Indian Democracy. M G Devasahayam, Subhashis Banerjee and Jagdeep Chhokar. Book chapter in Electoral Democracy? An enquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India edited by M G Devasahayam, published by Paranjoy. February, 2022.
- Election Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021: a bill passed in haste. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. December 2021. in The Indian Express, December 23, 2021.
- On health data infrastructure design. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Ambuj Sagar and Subhashis Banerjee. October 2021. A shorter version appeared in in The Indian Express, on March 8, 2021.
- Blockchain vs public bulletin board for integrity of elections and electoral rolls. Prashant Agrawal, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. July 2021. in The India Forum. July 30, 2021.
- Digital surveillance and Constitutional morality. Subhashis Banerjee. July 26, 2021. in The Indian Express, July 27, 2021.
- Remembering Dinesh Mohan. Subhashis Banerjee. May 23, 2021. in The Wire. May 24, 2021.
- Report of the Citizens' Commission on Elections (Volume II: Are elections in India free and fair?). Chapters by Harsh Mander and Venkatesan Ramani, Anjali Bharadwaj, Jagdeep Chhokar, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Sanjay Kumar. An end-note on the chapter on electoral rolls by Subhashis Banerjee. March 15, 2021.
- Report of the Citizens' Commission on Elections (Volume I: Is the Indian EVM and VVPAT fit for democratic elections?). Justice (Retd) Madan Lokur, Wajahat Habibullah, Justice (Retd) Hariparanthaman, Arun Kumar, John Dayal, Pamela Philipose, Sundar Burra, M G Devasahayam, Subhashis Banerjee. Executive summary. January 30, 2021. (the paper version in the Economic and Political Weekly, January 15, 2022)
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ব্যক্তিপরিসর সুরক্ষা: এক দায়বদ্ধ কাঠামোর উপাদানসমূহ
শুভাশিস ব্যানার্জী ।
December 24, 2020.
- The missing links in NEP 2020. Subhashis Banerjee. November 2020. in The Indian Express, November 12, 2020.
- Back to basics in algorithms. S. Arun-Kumar and Subhashis Banerjee. in The Hindu, October 2020.
- HasGeek Workshop on Privacy by Design for Public Applications. Prashant Agrawal, Anubhutie Singh, Malavika Raghavan, Subodh Sharma, Subhashis Banerjee. June 2020. (Day 1: Slides, Session; Day 2: Slides, Slides, Paper, Session)
- On the proportionality of Aarogya Setu. Subhashis Banerjee, Bhaskaran Raman and Subodh Sharma. May 2020. in the LiveMint, July 8, 2020.
Based on an affidavit in support of a petition filed in the Kerala High Court.
- Apps for COVID: to do or not to do. Subhashis Banerjee, Bhaskaran Raman and Subodh Sharma. in The Wire, April 2020.
- NPR and NRC: privilege completeness over soundness. Subhashis Banerjee and Om Damani. March 2020.
- Observations on the people's tribunal on Aadhaar-related issues. Subhashis Banerjee. March 2020.
- To subsidise higher education or not? Subhashis Banerjee. November 2019. in The Indian Express, December 9, 2019.
- Privacy concerns with Aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. June 2019. in Communications of the ACM (CACM), Volume 62 Issue 11, November 2019. (invited 500 word inset).
- Where goes Aadhaar? Subhashis Banerjee. July 2019. in The Indian Express, July 15, 2019.
- Bringing order to the EVM debate. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. February 2019. in The Indian Express, March 1, 2019. (also see https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.09557)
- A judgment without aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee. December 2018. in Law School Policy Review, December 23, 2018.
- On health data architecture design: talk at Law Economics Policy Conference on Health 2018. Subhashis Banerjee. November 2018.
- Comments on the data protection bill. Subhashis Banerjee. September 2018. in The Indian Express, December 6, 2018.
- An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication. Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. August 2018. in Ideas for India, September 2018.
- Authorisation and access control architecture as a framework for data and privacy protection. Subhashis Banerjee. January 2018; updated April, 2018 (Submitted in response to B N Srikrishna committee's white paper on a data protection framework).
A summary appeared in the Indian Express on May 5, 2018 and was reproduced in Metamorphoses on May 18, 2018.
A related short note with Subodh Sharma appeared in Ideas for India on July 4, 2018.
- An interview with Governance Now. January 31, 2018.
- Aadhaar needs to pass a stringent welfare test. Subhashis Banerjee. October 2017. in The Indian Express, November 2017.
- An argument without Aadhaar. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Indian Express, July 2017.
- It's time to disentangle the complex Aadhaar debate. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Wire, April 2017.
Here, here and here are some reactions.
- A contentious proposal. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Indian Express, January 2017.
- There is No Magical On-Off Switch That Will Allow India to Transform Into a Cashless Economy. Subhashis Banerjee. in The Wire, Business Standard, December 2016.
- Privacy and Security of Aadhaar: A Computer Science Perspective. Shweta Agrawal, Subhashis Banerjee and Subodh Sharma. August, 2016.
A shorter version in the Economic and Political Weekly, September 2017.
A summary appeared in the in The Wire, July 2017.
This article received some press coverage, see here.
- On Facebook's Freebasics. Subhashis Banerjee. Blog (PDF), January 2016.
Subhashis Banerjee / Dept. Computer Science and Engineering / IIT Delhi /
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