There is much to celebrate in terms of how internet technologies have democratised data availability and diluted the elitism surrounding data access. It has facilitated independent communication, helped in mobilising around civic issues and has played a significant role in building public consciousness around social, economic and political matters.  There are several notable examples of how information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD) have helped in improving the lives of marginalised communities.  However, many private agencies collect data using sophisticated algorithms. On most occasions, such algorithms are opaque and not open to public scrutiny. The proliferation of algorithms in diverse areas such as government policies, profiling, advertising, hiring in companies etc are reconfiguring our societies in complex ways. These in turn have profound consequences in widening the socio-economic divide, manipulating electoral outcomes, and fundamentally altering the level playing field in a democracy.  These prompt us to move beyond techno-utopianism and emphasise the need for a push towards constitutional propriety and accountability for technologies. Keeping these in mind, a critical interrogation of the politics and ethics of data, rooted in constitutional principles has assumed importance. A nuanced understanding of these is vital in thinking and building new technologies and data platforms that seek to liberate humans rather than confine. By placing constitutional values and institutional accountability at the centre, this course aims to interrogate whether data collection and technological choices are value neutral or political choices.  While Development as Freedom serves as the foundation course in building perspectives, the two skill courses on programming and statistical principles would ground the students in building the rigour to analyse data. This final course in the sequence helps in further polishing the need to keep in mind that data comes with politics on its back and that data and technologies are not value neutral entities.