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Ever since GDPR came into circulation, it has become a trend setter in Data Protection Regulation. When PDPA 2018 followed, it was natural that several concepts which were part of GDPR also became a part of PDPA. Since GDPR had a legacy of EU Data Protection, the WP 29 documents and further a two year …

Naavi is in the process of developing the Data Trust Score System  which will enable Data Auditors to evaluate the level of compliance of an organization to the required PDPA standards. Naavi is also in the process of developing a “Personal Data Protection Standard of India” (PDPSI-0219) which will incorporate the data protection requirements of a …

Personal Data Protection regulation is presently a global phenomenon. While legislation like ITA 2000 try to protect “Data” in general(Section 43/66) with specific provisions for protecting “Personal Data” (Sec 72A) and “Sensitive Personal Data” (Section 43A), legislations like GDPR have focussed on Personal Data Protection only. India is set to follow the trend with its …

Naavi has time and again emphasized that “Security” is for the good of the community and if regulatory agencies want to prescribe security guidelines it has to be easily amenable for compliance. When a regulation like GDPR or PDPA 2018 or even ITA 2000/8 is issued as a legal instrument, then every entity coming under …

For some time, the articles on Privacy which were posted in www.naavi.org were not cross posted here. We are updating the posts now. These posts cover the period of September, October, November and December 2018 and early January 2019. During this time, there was the Aadhaar judgement which had an impact on Privacy in India, …

The Privacy laws as they are emerging led by GDPR are conspicuous by the huge penalties that may be imposed as “Administrative Fines” even when the data subjects have not suffered measurable financial losses. These laws in general prescribe that personal data of target subjects should be collected only on the basis of an informed …

The Ayushman Bharat scheme also referred to as the Modi Care program is an ambitious welfare scheme which Mr Modi is implementing. Under this scheme it is expected that 1.5 lakh health and wellness centers offering  preventive and primary care would be operating ont he supply side and over 10 crore plus households would be …

According to the Caravan report about the proposed new Data Protection Act /Privacy Protection Act which the Srikrishna Panel has tabled, a suggestion has been made for amendment of the Aadhaar Act to introduce what is called “Offline Authentication”. A discussion has already ensured in the professional circles, how the “Offline” authentication can be done …

Even while the Srikrishna Panel has expressed dissatisfaction at TRAI coming up with its own Privacy Protection regulation and a consequential need for revision by the Panel of its draft, Caravan has released a report about a draft copy of the proposed act containing 15 chapters which it has gained access to and released some …

In the Privacy and Data protection circles, a debate is going on for some time in India. Naavi.org had also suggested this to the Srikrishna Committee during the public consultations. (Refer: “Personal Data Should be Considered as Personal Property”). Subsequently, DISHA 2018 in its draft form has endorsed this view. Now the TRAI Chairman also seems …