The Indian government’s endeavour to regulate the collection and use of personal data dates back to 2012 when the A.P. Shah led committee released its report on privacy[1]. Seven years hence, the much awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“2019 Bill”)[2] was introduced by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology in the seventeenth Lok SabhaRead more
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There seems to be an explosion of new data protection regulations across the South Asia region in recent years. Although these proposed laws[1] codify a common set of guiding principles, each law is in fact unique. Each of the regions in which these laws are proposed to be enacted has its own social dynamic, geo-politicalRead more
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Parliament of India on 10 December 2019, and referred to a Joint Committee. This legislation will require businesses to revamp their data-handling practices and embed privacy into their systems and operations. Our team has put together two documents to help organisations prepare for this forthcoming law andRead more
1. Introduction The General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”) came into force on 25 May 2018 as an umbrella regulation to safeguard data and privacy in the European Union (“EU”) and European Economic Area. Closer home, in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) & Anr v Union of India & Ors[1] (“Privacy Judgment”), a nine judgeRead more
The Dialogue organized a roundtable in New Delhi on 5th August, 2019, to discuss the way forward for a progressive data protection law that is rights-based and implements the Supreme Court’s principles on privacy. This note summarizes the discussions from this roundtable, which was conducted under the Chatham House Rule. Session 1: Gaps inRead more
This post is the first in a series of three posts analysing the information technology (“IT”) ecosystem of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Introduction With over 4 billion people online[1], the internet has reshaped how we do business, communicate and conduct governance[2]. As the digital economy evolves, digital security has taken on a distinctRead more
This article argues that India’s draft National E-Commerce Policy will harm its startups. An edited version of this article was first published in the Economic Times on Saturday, 16 March 2019. The version published by the Economic Times is also available online, here. About two months from now, the US government will start to imposeRead more
The National Health Policy, 2017[1] (“Policy”) envisaged the creation of a digital health technology ecosystem, aiming to leverage the potential of digital health data. The advantages of such digitalization and the potential of technology can hardly be overlooked, yet the proposals in this policy essentially involve large-scale creation, collection and sharing of health data. AnRead more
The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“Bill”) raises many concerns for businesses – start-ups and established companies alike. Companies will be required to revamp several of their operational practices once the Bill becomes an enforceable law. This post provides an overview of some of the practical concerns raised by the Bill to give aRead more
In a 12 part series, we have mapped stakeholders’ comments to the Consultation Paper on Privacy, Security and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI). In order to address key data privacy and security issues, the TRAI framed twelve (12) questions and invited comments to these questions. InRead more