Month: March 2018

“Personal Data” is the object of data protection regulations such as the upcoming Data Protection Act of India, the DISHA 2018, as well as other laws such as GDPR and ITA 2008. “Protecting Personal Data” is considered “Information Privacy” by the Indian judiciary which declared “Privacy as a fundamental Right”. In all the data protection regulations, …

When ITA 2000 was drafted, the concept of “Smart Cities”, “Driver less cars” or “Artificial intelligence” or Humanoid Robots were not very much in the realm of the vision of the law makers. The main objective was to provide facilitation of E Commerce. In 2008 this was extended to provide some additional security against Cyber …

Dr Pratap Reddy, Executive Chairman of Apollo Hosiptal has stated that  Apollo Hospital had turned off CCTV cameras placed in the ICU when the late Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha was undergoing treatment. (Refer report here). In the light of a strong suspicion that Ms Jayalalitha could have been murdered by a political conspiracy, the …

The news report that Personal profiles of 50 million Face Book users was collected and unauthorizedly used to help Trump win an election has opened  a new debate on Privacy and Data Protection in India. BJP and Congress parties are fighting on TV to blame each other that they are also indulging in a similar …

Many organizations in India are now concerned about the need to be compliant with GDPR before the deadline of 25th May 2018. They must be receiving many e-mails from their business partners abroad with the query “Are You GDPR Compliant”?. There is therefore a scramble in the industry circles about how to be GDPR compliant …