Vrinda Bhandari

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1.

The Evolution of the Separate Legal Personality Doctrine and Its Exceptions: A Comparative Analysis

32(7) Company Lawyer 194-205 (2011)
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 26 May 2019
Sneha Mohanty and Vrinda Bhandari
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Independent
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Comparative Law, Corporate Personality, India, Legal History, Legal Personality, United States, Salomon, Separate Legal Personality

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The Use and Misuse of Section 144 CrPC

Number of pages: 173 Posted: 22 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Vrinda Bhandari, Abhinav Sekhri, Natasha Maheshwari and Madhav Aggarwal
Independent, Delhi High Court, Independent and Independent
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Criminal Procedure, Rule of Law, Emergency, Civil Liberties, India, Section 144

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Interpreting the Constitution: Indian Supreme Court Constitution Benches Since Independence

Economic & Political Weekly, Vol XLVI, No. 9, February 26, 2011
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 12 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2012
Nick Robinson, Anjana Agarwal, Vrinda Bhandari, Ankit Goel, Karishma Kakkar, Reeba Muthalaly, Vivek S, Meera Sreekumar, Surya Sreenivasan and Shruti Viswanathan
International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, National Law School of India University, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Indian Supreme Court, Constitution, Supreme Court Judges, Constitution Benches, Constitutional Jurisprudence, Quantitative Analysis, Supreme Court Caseload

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Facial Recognition: Why We Should Worry About the Use of Big Tech for Law Enforcement

The Future of Democracy in the Shadow of Big and Emerging Tech (CCG, NLU Delhi/FNF, 2021), available at https://ccgdelhi.s3.ap-south-1.amazonaws.com/uploads/the-future-of-democracy-in-the-shadow-of-big-and-emerging-tech-ccg-248.pdf
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 03 May 2021
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent
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facial recogniton, India, privacy, AI, proportionality, Puttaswamy, law enforcement, surveillance, democracy

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The Surveillance State: Privacy and Criminal Investigation in India: Possible Futures in a Post-Puttaswamy World

3(2) Univ. of Oxford Human Rights Hub Journal 15 (2020)
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 May 2020 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Vrinda Bhandari and Karan Lahiri
Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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privacy, surveillance, illegally obtained evidence, exclusionary rule, criminal law, Puttaswamy, Aadhaar, India, Supreme Court, judicial oversight

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Backdoors to Encryption: Analysing an Intermediary’s Duty to Provide “Technical Assistance”

Data Governance Network Working Paper 15
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 18 Mar 2021
Vrinda Bhandari, Rishab Bailey and Faiza Rahman
Independent, xKDR Forum and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School
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encryption, India, intermediary liability, intermediaries, privacy, technical assistance, technology, security, cyber security

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What's Sex Got to Do with It? Mapping the Impact of Questions of Gender and Sexuality on the Evolution of the Digital Rights Landscape in India

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 18 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 01 Jun 2021
Vrinda Bhandari and Anja Kovacs
Independent and Independent
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privacy, gender, sexuality, sex, women's rights, internet, feminism, anonymity, right to be forgotten, #MeToo, intermediary liability, OTT platforms, internet access, non-consensual sharing of sexual images, pornography, India, digital rights

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Analysing India's KYC Framework through the Privacy Lens

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 29 Apr 2022
Vrinda Bhandari, Rishab Bailey and Trishee Goyal
Independent, xKDR Forum and National Institute of Public Finance and Policy
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FATF, privacy, KYC, Aadhaar, customer due diligence, enhanced due diligence, financial privacy, banks, profiling

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Improving Internet Connectivity During COVID-19

Digital Pathways at Oxford Paper Series; no. 4. Oxford, United Kingdom (2020)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Sep 2020
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent
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Towards a Privacy Framework for India in the Age of the Internet

Working Paper No. 179, NIPFP Working Paper Series
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jan 2017
Vrinda Bhandari and Renuka Sane
Independent and Trustbridge Rule of Law Foundation
Downloads 457 (109,896)
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Privacy, big data, India, Aadhaar, UID, Information Technology Act, digital

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Inconsistent and Unclear: The Supreme Court of India on Bail

6(3) NUJS L. Rev. 549-558 (2013)
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 03 Jul 2019
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent
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Bail, Supreme Court, India, Criminal Procedure, pretrial detention, presumption of innocence

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A Critique of the Aadhaar Legal Framework

31 NSLIR Rev 1-23 (2019)
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 11 Jul 2019
Vrinda Bhandari and Renuka Sane
Independent and Trustbridge Rule of Law Foundation
Downloads 360 (143,960)
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Aadhaar, UIDAI, excessive delegation, accountability, grievance redress, privacy, India, digital identity, biometric, regulation

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Protecting Citizens From the State Post Puttaswamy: Analysing the Privacy Implications of the Justice Srikrishna Committee Report and the Data Protection Bill, 2018

14(2) Socio Legal Review 143-169 (2018)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 11 Oct 2018 Last Revised: 09 Jul 2019
Vrinda Bhandari and Renuka Sane
Independent and Trustbridge Rule of Law Foundation
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Privacy, Puttaswamy, Justice Srikrishna, Data Protection, Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018,India, State Capacity, Regulation

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Comments on the (Draft) Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 18 Nov 2018
Rishab Bailey, Vrinda Bhandari, Smriti Parsheera and Faiza Rahman
xKDR Forum, Independent, CyberBRICS Project, FGV Law School and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School
Downloads 319 (163,942)
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Data Protection, Privacy, Localisation, Suveillance, India, Srikrishna Committee

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Examining the Online Anonymity Debate: How Far Should the Law Go in Mandating User Identification?

Data Governance Network, Working Paper 18, 2021
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 May 2022
Rishab Bailey, Vrinda Bhandari and Faiza Rahman
xKDR Forum, Independent and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School
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privacy, anonymity, intermediary regulation

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Use of Digital ID for Delivery of Welfare

Centre for Internet & Society, Digital Identities Project
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Oct 2020
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent
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digital identity, Aadhaar, Huduma, Huduma Namba, good governance, welfare, biometric, Kenya, India, Estonia, authentication

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Comments on the (draft) Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Mar 2022
Vrinda Bhandari, Rishab Bailey, Smriti Parsheera and Faiza Rahman
Independent, xKDR Forum, CyberBRICS Project, FGV Law School and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School
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India, data protection, privacy, PDP Bill, JPC, State, exemption, technology, comments

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Towards Holistic Regulation of ‘Online Hate Speech’

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Jun 2021
Vrinda Bhandari and Rishab Bailey
Independent and xKDR Forum
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intermediary, online, hate speech, content moderation, privacy, anonymity, intermediary liability, regulation, Twitter, criminalisation, India

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Constitutionalism During a Crisis: The Case of Aarogya Setu

Coronavirus Pandemic: Lessons and Policy Responses, Uma Kapila ed. (Academic Foundation, New Delhi, 2020)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 01 Feb 2021
Vrinda Bhandari and Faiza Rahman
Independent and University of Melbourne - Melbourne Law School
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Aarogya Setu, COVID-19, privacy, law, legislation, pandemic, judicial review, contact tracing, India, proportionality, crisis, executive action

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Towards the Evaluation of Socio-Digital ID Ecosystems in Africa: Comparative Analysis of Findings from Ten Country Case Studies (Research ICT Africa and the Centre for Internet & Society)

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 24 Nov 2021
Vrinda Bhandari, Anri van der Spuy, Shruti Trikanad and Yesha Tshering Paul
Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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digital ID, identity, ID systems, digital identity, Aadhaar, biometric, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe, India, welfare, authentication

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COVID-19 Surveillance in India: A Bridge Too Far

Chapter in "Private and Controversial: When Public Health and Privacy Meet in India" (Parsheera ed., Harper Collins, New Delhi) (2022)
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 06 Jan 2023
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent
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Surveillance, Covid, Pandemic, India, Tech, Digital, Contact Tracing, Quarantine, Drones, Masks, Apps, Aarogya Setu, Vaccines

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Surveillance Enabling Identity Systems in Africa: Tracing the Fingerprints of Aadhaar

Centre for Internet & Society 2022
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 21 Oct 2022
Shruti Trikanad and Vrinda Bhandari
Independent and Independent
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Surveillance, Aadhaar, digital identity, World Bank, external actors

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Governing ID: Principles of Evaluation

Centre for Internet & Society, Digital Identities Project 2020
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 12 Feb 2021
Vrinda Bhandari, Shruti Trikanad and Amber Sinha
Independent, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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digital identity, Aadhaar, Huduma, Huduma Namba, good governance, regulatory theory, welfare, biometric, Kenya, India, Estonia, authentication, rule of law, rights, risk

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The Surveillance Law Landscape in India and the Impact of Puttaswamy

Centre for Communication Governance, 2023
Number of pages: 120 Posted: 29 Nov 2023
Jhalak Kakkar, Nehmat Kaur, Sharngan Aravindakshan, Shashank Mohan, Shubhi Agarwal, Sravya Movva, Vasudev Devadasan, Vrinda Bhandari and CCG Centre for Communication Governance
Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Independent, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Centre for Communication Governance, Independent and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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privacy, Puttaswamy, surveillance

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Pretrial Detention in India: An Examination of the Causes and Possible Solutions

Volume 11, No. 2, Asian Journal of Criminology, 2016
Posted: 21 Jan 2021
Vrinda Bhandari
Independent

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Criminal Justice, Pretrial Detention, Undertrial, Prisons, Prisoners, South Asia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Accused, Jail