Building Harmony in Privacy Space
As the D-day for GDPR (25th May 2018) approaches, many of the Indian companies are busy with their preparation for implementing GDPR in their processing activities. At the same time, there is also a question in the minds of most of the Indian companies about how the GDPR provisions would be made applicable to them by …
Read More Disclosure of GDPR Risk impact on Indian Companies is part of Corporate GovernanceAs we enter the final stages of public consultation on the drafting of the new Data Protection Act of India following the release of the White Paper by the Justice Srikrishna Committee, one aspect of the law that needs attention is the “Right to Know” of an individual which often conflicts with the” Right to …
Read More “Right To Know” is a Right to be protected under the proposed Data Protection ActWe often say that “One person’s right to extend the arm ends at the tip of the nose of the next person”. This is a well known cliche but often forgotten by those who are over enthusiastic on “Privacy” including the judges of the Supreme Court. We are now in the midst of the drafting …
Read More Privacy law cannot be only a tool for hiding oneself(This is a continuation of the previous article) 3. A lot of discussion centered around the issue of “Consent” and “Informed Consent”. The issues were about the need for and effect of consents as an instrument of Privacy protection. There were also suggestions that consents should be applicable by processors also, consents should be standardized …
Read More Public Consultation on Data Protection Law….some points of discussion-3(This is a continuation of the previous article) 2. One of the questions that arose during the discussions was on the “Data Breach Notification requirements” under the proposed act. There was one concern of the industry that “Data Breach” reporting to the data subjects should not be mandated and even if required it should not …
Read More Public Consultation on Data Protection Law…. Some points of discussion-2During the discussion on the Data Protection white paper in Bangalore on 13th instant by three members of the Expert Committee led by the Chairman Justice B.N.Srikrishna, several interesting issues came up for discussion. While it is difficult to recall all the points discussed, I am trying to capture some of the interesting points raised …
Read More Public Consultation on Data Protection Law…. Some points of discussion-1On Saturday, (13th January 2017), three members of the Judtice Srikrishna Committee on Data Protection Law participated in a public consultation program in Bangalore at the IISc auditorium. Honourable Justice (Retd) B.N. Srikrishna, the Chairman of the committee was present along with two other members of the committee namely Mr Gopalakrishna and Rama Vedashree. A …
Read More Public Consultation on Data Protection LegislationAs the extended date (31st January 2018) for submission of feedback on the whitepaper on Data Protection law approaches, there is increased activity in the industry circles to submit the recommendations. It is obvious that there will be two distinct sets of recommendations that will be reaching the Government. One would be from the industry …
Read More Let’s look beyond GDPR, Personal Data Managers and Data Trusts required under Data Protection Act of India