Personal data protection

A thinking person's guide

Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my kindle, reading about recent breakthroughs in machine learning techniques (which is what my friends think is boring about me), being driven by my long-serving driver from the Mumbai airport to home when I felt the car slowing down suddenly. When I looked up, I saw a traffic policeman in front of our car, waving us to stop. When we did, he appeared at the driver’s window, and demanded to see his driving-licence. He then tapped on a gadget he had in his palm, obviously