This paper evaluates the quality of privacy policies of five popular online services in India -- Google, Whatsapp, Uber, Flipkart and Paytm -- from the perspective of access and readability. We ask -- do the policies have specific, unambiguous and clear provisions that lend themselves to easy...

Over the last decade, there have been vast improvements in surveillance technology and the availability, storage, and mining of personal information online, supported by developments in big data analytics. This has created a public policy conundrum over balancing the benefits of big data with...