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At a time when there is a raging debate on whether the health status of a leader like Ms Jayalalitha should be made public or held confidential and whether unnecessary secrecy breeds rumours or confidentiality is essential for public peace, Government of India has expressed its intention to bring in a Bill to provide “Privacy …

In developing Privacy Controls it is important to distinguish between “Data Breach” and “Data Disclosure” and adopt appropriate policies for “Data Breach Notification” and “Data Disclosure”. The essential difference between Data Breach and Data Disclosure is that a “Data Breach” represents an unauthorized access to information where as Data Disclosure represents a release of information …

Media is considered the fourth pillar of democracy and “Free Press” is considered the hallmark of a mature democratic society. The same society also holds “Privacy Right” in high esteem. But often the “Privacy Right” of individuals clash with the “Freedom of the Press” to disseminate information. Just as the Privacy Vs Security debate is important, Privacy …

“Personal Information” belongs to the “Person” who is the data subject. The essential aspect of Privacy protection is to recognize the primacy of the individual to determine what he can do with his personal information. Once the personal information is handed over by the individual to an entity in return of some benefit, a contract …

The multiplicity of frameworks trying to compete with each other on how “Privacy” of an individual has to be protected has created a web of confusion in the Corporate circles since all managements ultimately have limited resources and has to balance their compliance activities in the form of audits, generation of reports etc with their …

Privacy is a concept of “Right” of an individual in a democratic society that respects Civil Rights. It is considered as a “Right” to be “Left Alone”. “Privacy Right” is closely related to “Right or Freedom of Expression”. Freedom of expression of one person may interfere with the Right to Privacy of another individual and …

PRIVACY.IND.IN  is dedicated to the service of Indian Companies to be compliant with the Privacy Regulations as would be relevant to the Indian IT and BPO companies. In particular it would provide information on global Privacy Regulatory frameworks such as the GDPR, Privacy Shield, the BCR, SCC etc. besides closely following the developments in India. …