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Public Consultation on Data Protection Legislation

On 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 …

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Let’s look beyond GDPR, Personal Data Managers and Data Trusts required under Data Protection Act of India

As 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 …

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Compliance by Design needs to be mandated by Data Protection Act

[P.S: This is in continuation of the discussion of the proposed Data Protection Act in India and the public comments invited for the  Justice Srikrishna report.] “Privacy by Design” is a concept which GDPR expects from Data Controllers and Data Processors.  The concept of Privacy by design basically means that measures for Privacy protection should be initiated …

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The Right to Forget ..should it be part of Indian Privacy Protection Act?

[P.S: This is in continuation of the discussion of the proposed Data Protection Act in India and the public comments invited for the  Justice Srikrishna report.] The EU law on Privacy under GDPR recognizes the “Right to Forget” which essentially means that the data subject can demand that his personal information should be erased from the …

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Data Protection Act should recognize the role of a Data Manager in addition to the Data Controller and Processor

[P.S: This is in continuation of the discussion of the proposed Data Protection Act in India and the public comments invited for the  Justice Srikrishna report.] Many of the issues connected with Privacy arise out of the complaint that “information collected by a Data Controller” is processed in such a manner that the data subject feels …

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Data Protection Law should provide a Jurisdictional umbrella

[P.S: This is in continuation of the discussion of the proposed Data Protection Act in India and the public comments invited for the  Justice Srikrishna report.] The Justice Srikrishna Committee (SKC) has propounded 7 key principles of the Data Protection Act and proceeded to provide several questions in its report seeking public comments. The Seven key …

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Impact of Supreme Court’s Order on Right to Privacy on Cyber Space and Data Protection

A Round table was held at National Law School of India, Bangalore, the premier law education institute in the country on assessing the impact of the Supreme Court order on Right to Privacy on Cyber Space and Data Protection. Dr Professor Nagaratna, Dr Professor Subbarao, from NLSUI led the discussions and several other invited guests …

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Privacy…is a “Fundamental Right” but we donot know what constitutes “Privacy”!

While the nine eminent judges went about their mission to declare “Privacy As a Fundamental Right”, they also encountered the problem defining what is “Privacy”. The challenge of defining Privacy Rights without a definition of Privacy has confronted law makers as well as law followers which has not been appreciated much in the past. Now …

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Does Written Text of the Constitution not have any sanctity?

The alacrity with which the honourable Supreme Court constituted a 9 member bench to review “Whether Privacy is a Fundamental Right” and the release of the voluminous judgement before the retirement of Chief Justice Mr Kehar indicates that the CJI wanted a “Historic” judgement to go on record. The Court has succeeded in this objective …

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