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This article discusses the first step for fintechs to get ready for the new data law. It originally appeared in the July 2023 Edition of FinTales, our monthly fintech newsletter. No piece of legislation has taken more punches than our elusive data protection law. You’ve heard this before, but we’ll say it again. The dataRead more

A detailed clause-wise analysis of the Digital Personal data Protection Bill 2023 On 7 August 2023, the Lok Sabha passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023. It will soon be introduced in the Rajya Sabha and likely become a law in a couple of days. We present a clause-wise analysis of the 2023 Bill –Read more

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 was assented to by the President of India on 11 August 2023. Read on for a quick explainer of what the law means for you. Our summary of the Act is available here. 1. What data is covered? Personal data, i.e., data about an individual that can identifyRead more

This post explores if Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT can collect our data from the Internet without our consent on the ground that the data is in the public domain. It also explores if ChatGPT’s recent ban in Italy over data protection norms has any lessons for India. This post was first published onRead more

This post sets out our key takeaways from the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022, and lays down how key provisions have changed from earlier iterations of the bill – i.e., the Joint Parliamentary Committee’s Data Protection Bill, 2021 and the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. On 18 November 2022, the Indian government publishedRead more

A detailed clause-wise analysis of the Parliamentary committee’s report on India’s data protection law. On 16 December 2021, the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 tabled its report in Parliament. The committee recommends expanding the Bill’s scope to include non-personal data, imposing greater restrictions on cross-border data flows, removing the tradeRead more

The post is an overview of our comments to the National Health Authority’s consultation papers on a proposed building block of the National Digital Health Mission, namely the unified health interface. The consultation papers sought comments on the design and governance for creating and sustaining the unified health interface . Background: In August 2020, PrimeRead more

The post is an overview of our comments to the National Health Authority’s consultation papers on two building blocks of the National Digital Health Mission, namely the health facility registry and the healthcare professionals’ registry. The consultation papers sought comments on the design and governance of these building blocks. Background: In August 2020, Prime MinisterRead more

This blogpost summarizes some of the key reports that have been released by the Standing Committee on Information Technology since its inception. Since its inception, the Standing Committee on Information Technology (“SCIT”) has released 305 reports. Out of these, 55 reports were on different subjects and 14 reports were on different Bills referred to theRead more

I. Introduction The APAC region has been at the vanguard of digitisation, digital innovation, and digital governance.[1] However, differences in legal regimes in the region have meant that any regional or global privacy initiatives such as the APEC Privacy Framework,[2] APEC Cross Border Privacy Rules System (CBPR),[3] or the Osaka Declaration of Digital Economy[4] doRead more