This saga underlines challenges in global governance which implicate India. A similar pattern follows the global governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Yet, as in the case of the Cybercrime Convention, consensus on principles masks large divergences in practice. Attempts at international governance of cross-border data flows has seen this play out, and so now will cybercrime. India will struggle to retain its much-cherished institutional autonomy in global governance unless it builds technical capacities to engage on several levels all at once.

Source: The Hindu January 27, 2026 07:44 UTC