Context :
Trade bodies want WTO to extend zero customs duty on electronic
transmissions / ET / 17 May 2022
Extract :
More than 85 global organisations, including some from India, on Tuesday wrote to the World Trade Organization (WTO) members to extend the zero per cent customs duty regime on electronic transmissions.
Though there is no concrete definition
of what comprises electronic transmission, WTO members have
generally agreed that anything from software to email, digital text messages, music videos, songs, and video games fall under the ambit
of this term.
In the letter,
associations such as Asia Cloud Computing Association, Australian Services
Roundtable, India Electronics & Semiconductor Association, Japan
Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association, Global Data Alliance
and others have said that allowing the current moratorium of zero per cent
customs duty on electronics
transmissions to expire would “be a historic setback for the WTO, representing
an unprecedented termination of a multilateral agreement in place nearly since
WTO’s inception
MY TAKE :
Ø Nightmare ? #Aadhar #Privacy #DataProtection …………[ 04 Mar 2018 ]
Extract :
# The number of
Internet-connected devices ( without doubt , GPS
enabled ) are growing
exponentially and expected to reach 50 device per
person by 2020
# Each of these device will be embedded with
micro-sensors which will pick-up
all the personal / private
conversations of a user and transmit it to the
Central servers of , not only the
device manufacturers but also of the Internet
Service providers involved .
# Scientists also seem to agree that content in all of its form (
textual - audio –
video – sensory ) , generated by
all human beings on the earth will get
captured automatically /
continuously and flow seamlessly , across billions of
internet connected devices and
will no more remain confined to a few servers
# All of this will happen involuntarily
and an individual will have neither any say
on this nor will anyone be able to
opt-out from this scenario. This flow of a
person’s private data will start
from birth
# Technology has advanced so far – and
continues to accelerate even faster –
that it is possible to treat “ Content (
personal / private data ) “ like an air
molecule , which keeps travelling freely around
the earth and gets inhaled a
trillion times ( content consumption ) by a billion humans
. Introduction of 5G
and Li-Fi technologies will
speed up this process even further
# With the arrival of Quantum Computing , it
will soon become possible for the
same content ( personal / private
data ) , to exist simultaneously at multiple
places , but in differing formats
A “ Text Posting “ on Facebook may well appear on
different media as
Voice or Image or Smell or Touch !
# Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the
following as far as the
“ Theory of
Information “ is concerned
:
“ Like Entropy ,
content keeps growing with each and every human
interaction , either with other
humans or with his environment , and content
can no longer remain hidden , nor
can it be destroyed “
with regards,
hemen parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 21 May 2022
Related Reading :
Half the atoms
in the planet could be digital data by 2245 / live
science / 27 Aug 2020
Extract :
But within a few short centuries, the total amount of digital bits produced annually
by humanity could exceed the number of atoms on our planet and, even more
unexpectedly,
account for half
of its mass.
We live in information-rich times. Cell phones everywhere and high social media
use mean that almost every human being is generating astonishing quantities of
computerized content every day.
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