This talk introduces a new research project I will be conducting on digital lending and everyday forms of indebtedness in India through an analysis of scandals around “killer loan apps” developed by quasi-legal companies who engaged in aggressive loan recovery tactics that drove several borrowers to commit suicide. Rather than an aberration, I argue that the scandal around killer loan apps draws attention to the ways that digital lending is shifting the terms of debt relations in India. As borrowers’ data comes to guarantee loan repayments, the entanglements of digital debt are new and threatening forms of subjugation.

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