Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Responses dated 31 January 2018 to the “White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India” dated 27 November 2017 (White Paper) released by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY)

In this document, we present our responses to the public consultation on the White Paper which is based on our broader approach on data protection. This approach looks past a consent-led approach to data protection, and seeks to embed a bundle of rights for all individuals with respect to their personally
identifiable data that apply even where consent has been validly obtained for data collection