Our response to the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018
Comments to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITy) on the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018
One year after Supreme Court’s landmark judgement, India still remains unclear on privacy rights
The heady optimism following the judgment is beginning to wane in the absence of a practical law that enforces the rights it asserted.
Enforcing Data Protection: A Model for Risk-Based Supervision Using Responsive Regulatory Tools
The effectiveness of a future Indian data protection regime would hinge largely on the capacity and approach to supervision and enforcement. The paper discusses some novel ideas to guide the enforcement of a data protection regime.
In age of big data, routine information can be sensitive – and Indian law doesn’t protect us enough
The harvesting of 50 million Facebook users’ data for Trump’s presidential campaign underscores new challenges for data protection.
The Need for Boundaries: Respecting Privacy in Financial Consumer Data Practices
This blog post does two things. It explains why data privacy matters and why global developments – particularly changes in the law – are going to make it matter.
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
Our Response to the White Paper on a Data Protection Framework for India
Last week, the period for the public to respond with comments on the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India (the White Paper) ended. The document was released on 27 November 2017 by the Committee of Experts to deliberate on a data protection framework for the country, established by the Ministry for Electronics […]
The Privacy Judgment and Financial Inclusion in India
Technology promises to overcome traditional barriers to financial inclusion, in particular by harnessing insights from consumers’ personal data. However, use of personal data creates new risks for consumers.
The Privacy Judgment and Financial Inclusion in India
Technology promises to overcome traditional barriers to financial inclusion, in particular by harnessing insights from consumers’ personal data. However, use of personal data creates new risks for consumers.
Privacy on the Line: What do Indians think about privacy & data protection?
We met Sulekha[1] in a village in Uttarakhand. She was talking about the information she considered most important to her: her ration card, Aadhaar card, NREGA job card and her phone number.
