India needs better defences to be a digital superpower after data breach

If India’s leaders are proud of one big governance idea, it’s “digital public infrastructure.” Over the past few years, as every Indian received a unique numeric ID attached to their biometric data, the government released a series of relatively simple apps to interact with the state and private companies. In theory, users can determine how much of their data held on these publicly provided platforms is made available to privately run apps, thereby putting the individual, and not the state or corporations, in control.