Data Mining; Remembering Gaddar; Inviting Floods
Opinion Watch
Data Mining
The Economic Times in its Editorial has said that the Data Protection Bill, passed by Parliament, is inadequate to deal with the technology-led challenges, while arguing a case for the regulation of generative AI. The business daily spotlighted the prospects of the disruptions caused by machine learning. It stressed that delay in regulating AI will affirm that policies are behind curves.
It has taken several years for Parliament to enact a data protection law, which decriminalizes offences, while ensuring that trans-border mining of the data is checked. It will be incumbent upon the government at the time of framing rules that small businesses are not hauled for ignorance, while emphasis is laid on greater citizens’ sensitization.
Remembering Gaddar
The Asian Age in its Editorial has paid rich tributes to Gummadi Vithal Rao, popularly known as Gaddar, the revolutionary balladeer, stressing that he inspired hundreds of thousands of people with his songs, which were simple yet powerful, didactic and evocative. “Two such songs, rated as outstanding and likely to remain in popular recall are Bandi Enaka Bandi Katti from movie Maa Bhoomi and Podusthunna Poddumeda from movie Jai Bolo Telangana, which not inspired people against the atrocities of feudal lords in Telangana but also served as anthems and rallying call songs,” added the New Delhi-based daily.
Rao alias Gaddar was a man who wore several hats – Maoist sympathizer, Telangana state activist, political workers, and so on. Except for creation of Telangana, he was disappointed in his other ventures.
Inviting Floods
The Tribune in its Editorial has quoted the statement of the Jal Shakti Ministry in Parliament that during 2012-2021 period over 17,000 people died in floods, with damage to property at Rs 2.61 lakh crore. The Chandigarh-based daily put the onus on poor disaster management policies and flood mitigation measures, proliferation of unplanned settlements and structures around big cities, large-scale deforestation, and others.
At The Raisina Hills, we have maintained that the government has been found wanting in putting in place equipment to track possibilities of cloudbursts, while threats to deemed forests, accounting for India’s 70 per cent green cover, are being ignored at the risk of our own perils.
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