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Subhashis Banerjee
Subhashis Banerjee is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, where he currently holds the Ministry of Urban Development Chair. Previously he has held the Microsoft and Naren Gupta chair professorships at IIT Delhi. Professor Banerjee's primary areas of research are computer vision and machine learning, with a special emphasis on geometric algorithms. He has also worked extensively on design of computing and networking infrastructure and IT services. Recently he has started examining policy issues in digital identity, data and privacy protection, and fairness and reliability of machine learning algorithms.
Personal web page: http://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~suban
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Protecting data privacy: Authorisation and access control
The B.N. Srikrishna Committee, which was constituted in August 2017 to draft India’s data protection laws, is expected to submit its final recommendations this month. In this post, Banerjee and Sharma discuss key features of the Committee’s White Paper, and advocate authorisation and access control as a viable framework for privacy-by-design.
An offline alternative for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication
While decision on the constitutionality of Aadhaar by the Supreme Court of India remains a matter of speculation, it has become abundantly clear that most of the use cases for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication (ABBA) have turned out to be deeply problematic. In this post, Banerjee and Sharma outline the tentative design sketch of an alternate offline protocol, with digitisation and identity verification objectives similar to ABBA, which may be more accurate and free of the negatives.