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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 …

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 …

[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 …

[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 …

[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 …

[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 …

At a time when India is debating a new law on Data Protection, an interesting question has been raised  before the Supreme Court about the “Right of Privacy” and whether it extends beyond death. The recent judgement of a 9 member bench of Supreme Court referred to as “Puttaswamy Judgement” was hailed as a “Land …

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 …

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 …

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 …