Building Harmony in Privacy Space
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 …
Read More Ownership of CCTV footageThe 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 …
Read More Due Diligence by Downstream Personal Data usersMany 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 …
Read More Getting Ready for GDPR compliance in IndiaCurrently GDPR and Aadhaar are both hot subjects for discussion amongst professionals whether they are Privacy activists, Information Security professionals or Lawyers. GDPR is at one end of the spectrum often looked upon by Privacy activists as the ultimate in Privacy Protection legislation. Aadhaar on the other hand is at the other end of the …
Read More GDPR and AadhaarAs 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-1