Udbhav Tiwari is no longer with Carnegie India.
Udbhav Tiwari is a public policy professional who works towards keeping the internet open, secure, and accessible by advocating for progressive regulations in the technology sector.
He is a public policy advisor for Mozilla, where he primarily focuses on data governance, content regulation, and connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. He was previously with the public policy team at Google and was a program manger at the Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) in India.
Tiwari was a co-rapporteur at the International Standards Organisation (ISO) and participated actively at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) work on Ethically Aligned Design (EAD). His work on mass surveillance was cited by the Justice BN Sri Krishna Committee’s Report on India’s Data Protection Law. He has been quoted as an expert in various international and domestic outlets, including the Guardian, Wired UK, BBC, Reuters, and the Times of India. He has also written for prominent publications in India, including the Indian Express and Business Standard, and a part of India Today’s ‘India Tomorrow’ list in 2020.
The spread (often inadvertent) of mis/disinformation on e2e platforms is fundamentally a problem of digital literacy and insufficient general awareness on how to verify news before forwarding it or sharing it widely on groups.
Udbhav Tiwari writes on how there is a false binary between encryption and public safety and highlights the need to give users better products while protecting their texts.
In this episode, Matthew D. Green joins Udbhav Tiwari to delve into the debate surrounding end-to-end encryption and answer questions related to the growing concerns about the future of encryption technology.
We hosted our first-ever 'Tech for Thought: A KnowledgeTransfer series' workshop on August 17, 2021, 'What is Data?', discussing concerns around data ownership, access, protection and regulation.
