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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

Context: In response to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s (“MeITY”) call for comments on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“Bill”), Ikigai Law and Inc42 submitted a consolidated set of comments reflecting the views of certain startups on the proposed law. These comments were published in connection with ‘The Dialogue’[1] – a roundtableRead 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

This note maps the position of all the stakeholders in relation to the Recommendations on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector (“Recommendations”) published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (“TRAI”) on 16th  July, 2018. In order to address key data protection and privacy issues, the TRAI framed twelve (12)Read more

An edited version of this piece by Nehaa Chaudhari was first published by Inc42 and is available here.   About ten days ago, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) appointed Committee of Experts chaired by Justice Srikrishna (Srikrishna Committee) released its final recommendations on what India’s data protection framework should look like. It alsoRead more

In February 2017, Whatsapp had announced its plans to introduce a UPI-based payments service in India. Since then, a number of developments have taken place with respect to the payments service, including a discussion on privacy concerns surrounding the application’s use of customer data. This post provides a timeline of all the developments that haveRead more

Pursuant to the mandate from the Finance Minister of India in his budget speech for 2018-19 to establish the National Program on Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), the NITI Aayog published a discussion paper on a “National Strategy for Artificial Intelligence” (“Paper”) on 4th June, 2018. Some highlights of the Paper are as follows:   The PaperRead more

This note maps the opinions of some stakeholders to the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India, released on 27 November, 2017 (“White Paper”). While all responses to the White Paper are currently unavailable, responses of twenty-six (26) stakeholders are available on Dvara Research’s blog, here. This noteRead more

This note maps the opinions of some stakeholders to the White Paper of the Committee of Experts on a Data Protection Framework for India, released on 27 November, 2017 (“White Paper”). While all responses to the White Paper are currently unavailable, responses of twenty-six (26) stakeholders are available on Dvara Research’s blog, here. Background: InRead more

This is the twelfth post, in a twelve (12) part series of posts, to map the opinions of all the stakeholders on the basis of their responses to the consultation paper on Privacy, Security, and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector (Consultation Paper) published by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) onRead more