India to introduce new legal framework for data privacy, free data flow: Piyush Goyal
4 months, 1 week ago

India to introduce new legal framework for data privacy, free data flow: Piyush Goyal

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Novemeber 22 : Union Minister Piyush Goyal announced that India is set to bring in a new legal framework to ensure data privacy while promoting the free flow of data among trusted global partners. The minister stated this during his address at the UK India Business Council's 'UK-India Technology Futures Conference' held in New Delhi on Thursday. In addition to a robust legal system, India is going to bring out a new legal framework to ensure data privacy that will encourage free flow of data among trusted partners." He proposed five areas for partnership which includes Developing AI learning platforms and integrating virtual reality into education, Collaborating on telemedicine to reduce healthcare costs in the UK and provide quality healthcare in remote parts of India, Creating climate modeling tools to predict and manage natural disasters, Advancing precision farming and residue-free agriculture to improve productivity and Innovating in industries like organic chemicals, engineering goods, and food products to capitalize on technological advancements.

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Paris AI summit: India’s lead role in defining sovereignty and cooperation in digital era
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Paris AI summit: India’s lead role in defining sovereignty and cooperation in digital era

Firstpost  

As artificial intelligence is shaping a new era of political and technological competition, influencing global power structures and redefining territoriality, its governance becomes a critical issue; nations must balance technological sovereignty with international cooperation to ensure equitable, ethical, and secure AI development French President Emmanuel Macron, right, shakes hands with Prime Minister Narendra Modi after addressing the audience in a …

Data protection rules and Act, a net negative for privacy rights
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Data protection rules and Act, a net negative for privacy rights

The Hindu  

Around eight years since the judgment of the Supreme Court of India, in Justice K.S. Despite the Digital Personal Data Protection Act having been notified in August 2023, its provisions remain inoperative due to the delay in the notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules Rules. ‘Significant Data Fiduciaries’, which are entities classified as such due to the volume …

New Digital Rules Let You Wipe All Your Details Online
2 months ago

New Digital Rules Let You Wipe All Your Details Online

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Can a customer walk into a multinational company like Amazon and ask it to remove all her information from the company's database? With the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 released in public domain seeking comments and feedback, the citizens can now look forward to a framework through which they can exercise their right to privacy. The rules …

Bill to take charge of India’s digital destiny
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Bill to take charge of India’s digital destiny

Hindustan Times  

You wake up, pour yourself a coffee, and scroll through your phone. But what if every app and website you’ve ever used — Instagram, Amazon, or even that odd e-store — was quietly rifling through your personal data without asking you? India’s proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 aim to ensure this nightmare doesn’t become your daily reality. Localisation …

India’s data protection rules need some fine-tuning
2 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s data protection rules need some fine-tuning

The Hindu  

On January 3, 2025, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released the much-anticipated Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules — a key moment in India’s journey to regulate digital personal data. The draft rules represent a departure from the earlier and controversial Personal Data Protection Bill, which many deemed was overly restrictive and even hostile to industry interests. While …

Rollout of Data Rules set for mid-2025: IT Minister
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Rollout of Data Rules set for mid-2025: IT Minister

The Hindu  

The government is aiming to notify and begin implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 — currently in a draft state — by the middle of this year, Union Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said. “I don’t see too many amendments coming in the final notification beyond some tweaks.” While large firms are prepared to comply …

Mint Quick Edit | India’s new privacy rules: A mixed bag
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Mint Quick Edit | India’s new privacy rules: A mixed bag

Live Mint  

More than a year after the Digital Personal Data Protection Act was passed, the government has released the draft rules that will enable this law’s implementation. While the rules are expansive, their requirement of parental consent for under-18-year-olds to join social media and gaming platforms could deliver a pragmatic age-gating regime. That said, the return of data localization requirements will …

No secret affair: on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025
2 months, 4 weeks ago

No secret affair: on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

The Hindu  

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, is a long overdue advance in the direction of enforcing the fundamental right to informational privacy for Indians, affirmed by the Supreme Court of India in the landmark case, Justice K.S. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which these draft rules seek to enforce, was passed in Parliament over a year ago. …

Data protection rules: India Inc says challenges remain
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Data protection rules: India Inc says challenges remain

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has released the much-awaited draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2025. Continued engagement from the government will be key to ensuring effective implementation.” Goldie Dhama, Partner at Deloitte India, said the draft offers important clarifications, mainly regarding verifiable consent for children’s data. After a gap of over 16 …

We should deal with technological transformations with utmost care
3 months, 1 week ago

We should deal with technological transformations with utmost care

Live Mint  

Without a doubt, the biggest disappointment of 2024 has to be the fact that India’s data protection law is still not in force despite having managed to get through both houses of Parliament in record time in 2023. On the other hand, what is most gratifying is the pace at which India’s digital public infrastructure approach gained acceptance around the …

Privacy as priority: India can’t afford any further delay in notifying data protection rules
3 months, 2 weeks ago

Privacy as priority: India can’t afford any further delay in notifying data protection rules

Live Mint  

A few days ago, Signzy, a popular Know Your Customer verification service used by India’s top banks and fintech firms, was affected by a cyber attack that may have exposed the sensitive personal information of millions. India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act was passed six years after the Right to Privacy verdict in 2017. The Digital India Act, touted as …

Digital infrastructure, interconnected Grid, & affordable data made India most attractive investment destination: Piyush Goyal
4 months ago

Digital infrastructure, interconnected Grid, & affordable data made India most attractive investment destination: Piyush Goyal

Live Mint  

New Delhi, November 28 : Union Minister Piyush Goyal highlighted India's growing appeal as a global hub for emerging technologies, attributing this success to the transformative initiatives undertaken in recent years. Speaking at a press conference in Delhi on Thursday, Goyal emphasized how the launch of the Interconnected Grid, the Digital India campaign, and the availability of affordable data have …

Let’s plug a privacy loophole in India’s account aggregator system
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Let’s plug a privacy loophole in India’s account aggregator system

Live Mint  

As regular readers of this column will know by now, I have long advocated the benefits of embedding regulatory principles directly into digital infrastructure. India’s Account Aggregator system has been built around a technology construct—referred to as the ‘consent artefact’—that embodies these privacy principles in a digital format. Since the principles of notice, purpose specification, retention restrictions and data minimization …

Hybrid clouds are concerned about the confidentiality and privacy of data: Report
1 year, 3 months ago

Hybrid clouds are concerned about the confidentiality and privacy of data: Report

India TV News  

Hybrid clouds are concerned about the confidentiality and privacy of data: Report Around 68 per cent of business leaders agreed upon the lack of cloud skills in India. As the adoption of GenAI grows, the data processing power needs AI workloads which could present new challenges for organisations which are looking to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Investing in the …

India's Data Revolution: Unpacking the DPDPA 2023 and Ensuring Accountability
1 year, 4 months ago

India's Data Revolution: Unpacking the DPDPA 2023 and Ensuring Accountability

The Quint  

It is crucial to establish mechanisms that hold the government accountable as a data custodian, said Dr Kislay Pandey, a leading corporate lawyer of India. Specific measures need to be taken to explicitly regulate emerging technologies like AI and tapping into their potential to bolster data protection. He further said, “To ensure the efficacy of data protection and privacy regulation …

Navigating the complex landscape of data privacy laws in India
1 year, 6 months ago

Navigating the complex landscape of data privacy laws in India

Hindustan Times  

In an era where data is hailed as the "new oil," the need for strong data privacy laws has never been more critical. India, too, has stepped up its game in this regard with the introduction of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. Compliance with data protection laws, such as the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 in India, …

HNLU To Conduct A Round Table On Data Protection In A Digital World: Perspectives From India
1 year, 6 months ago

HNLU To Conduct A Round Table On Data Protection In A Digital World: Perspectives From India

Live Law  

Hidayatullah National Law University, a leading institution in the field of legal education, is proud to announce an upcoming round table discussion on the topic "Delineating the Issues Relating to Data Protection in a Digital World: Perspectives from India." It will be an exceptional opportunity to engage with experts and explore the intricacies of data protection in the digital age …

Personal Data Protection: How India's Law Looks Compared to EU's Regulations
1 year, 7 months ago

Personal Data Protection: How India's Law Looks Compared to EU's Regulations

The Quint  

DPDPA seeks “to provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto,” as mentioned at the beginning of the legislation. In August 2017, when the nine-judge bench …

Word choice in India’s data protection law and a dilution of rights
1 year, 7 months ago

Word choice in India’s data protection law and a dilution of rights

The Hindu  

After years of going back and forth on its contents, India finally has a data protection law, i.e., the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. In the search for an answer to this question, we need to look at two basic features of any data protection law: the use of personal data with consent and without it. As decades of …

Explained: India's new Digital Personal Data Protection framework
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: India's new Digital Personal Data Protection framework

Hindustan Times  

A new law that defines how companies should process users' data came into force with the President giving assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Act passed by Parliament in the just-concluded monsoon session. Digital Personal Data Protection law has been notified by government. Entities must protect personal data in their possession by taking reasonable security safeguards to prevent a …

Paytm CEO says data protection bill ‘well articulated’, calls it ‘progress of our digital economy’
1 year, 7 months ago

Paytm CEO says data protection bill ‘well articulated’, calls it ‘progress of our digital economy’

Hindustan Times  

Paytm founder and CEO Vijay Shekhar Sharma on Friday took to X to praise the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, stating that it has been “well articulated” and that “it is progress for India's digital economy,” tagging Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar and the IT ministry. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, which curbs the misuse of personal information by …

Satire India new Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 policy highlights
1 year, 7 months ago

Satire India new Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 policy highlights

The Hindu  

First of all, kudos to the Mother of Democracy for setting new world records every day for fastest-ever law-making. Did you know the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 zipped through Parliament faster than a bullet train? There was no nonsense like ‘informed consent’ because they knew that all individual streams of data merge eventually with the Annadata — ‘the …

Legal framework for privacy as RS clears digital data bill
1 year, 7 months ago

Legal framework for privacy as RS clears digital data bill

Hindustan Times  

The Rajya Sabha passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 on Wednesday, clearing the way for what will be the first legal framework for privacy, close to six years after it was held as a fundamental right for Indians by the Supreme Court. While it is unlikely to take long for the bill to receive presidential assent — at …

Data market’s future hinges on regulation
1 year, 7 months ago

Data market’s future hinges on regulation

Hindustan Times  

In 1776, when Adam Smith — arguably the most ardent champion of market economics — argued in favour of the invisible hand, there was no telephone, no broadband and no digital data coursing through cables or air waves. Several economists, including Hal Varian, the chief economist of Google, are swayed by the efficiency hypothesis while others liken data to oil …

India passes data protection legislation in Parliament. Critics fear privacy violation
1 year, 7 months ago

India passes data protection legislation in Parliament. Critics fear privacy violation

Associated Press  

NEW DELHI — Indian lawmakers Wednesday approved a data protection legislation that “seeks to better regulate big tech firms and penalize companies for data breaches” as several groups expressed concern over citizens’ privacy rights. The legislation will limit cross-border transfer of data and provide a framework for setting up a data protection authority to ensure compliance from tech companies, Information …

India passes data protection bill amid surveillance concerns
1 year, 7 months ago

India passes data protection bill amid surveillance concerns

Al Jazeera  

The new law has drawn criticism from opposition lawmakers and rights groups over the scope of exemptions, weakening gov’t accountability. Indian lawmakers have passed a data protection law that will dictate how tech companies process users’ data amid criticism that it will likely lead to increased surveillance by the government. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 gives the government …

Indranil Banerjie | A Law to Protect Citizens, Or To Help in State Snooping?
1 year, 7 months ago

Indranil Banerjie | A Law to Protect Citizens, Or To Help in State Snooping?

Deccan Chronicle  

In today’s digital age, privacy is a chimera -- the reality is that every intimate detail of our lives, from our eating and spending patterns to medical and financial details, are digitally recorded in some computer somewhere in the vast cloud and can therefore be potentially exposed. The idea of a digital data protection law had become imperative given the …

DPDP gives people command over their personal data: EY
1 year, 7 months ago

DPDP gives people command over their personal data: EY

The Hindu  

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will empower data principals to have command over their data, said Lalit Kalra, Technology Partner, EY India. “The Bill gives more power to individuals especially in the context that for many years, organisations and various platforms have been collecting personal data of individual citizens,” he told The Hindu. Further explaining the additional rights the …

Explained: What is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023?
1 year, 7 months ago

Explained: What is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023?

Live Mint  

On 3 August, the long-awaited and much-debated Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was introduced in the Lok Sabha. On 7 August, the Lok Sabha passed the bill, which aims to “provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such …

The new data bill will mark a paradigm shift
1 year, 7 months ago

The new data bill will mark a paradigm shift

Hindustan Times  

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha yesterday. This is why I have been opposed to the enactment of a compliance-heavy, General Data Protection Regulation style regulation in India, even though this is widely believed to be the gold standard for data protection. Most of the other data protection principles — retention restrictions, purpose specifications, …

Centre Clarifies 'PM Modi's Vision' After Oppn Resists Data Protection Bill In Parliament
1 year, 7 months ago

Centre Clarifies 'PM Modi's Vision' After Oppn Resists Data Protection Bill In Parliament

ABP News  

Minister of State for Information Technology Minister Rajeev Chandrashekhar on Thursday said that the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a very significant milestone in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision which will protect the rights of all citizens. He defended the government's access to citizens' data as "lawful and legitimate in national security and emergencies" as opposition parties rallied to …

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy
1 year, 8 months ago

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy

Deccan Chronicle  

The perpetual clash between the idea of security and the idea of privacy is a battle that animates the soul of all democratic institutions. One of the biggest problems in India is that both law enforcement agencies and intelligence organisations have no sound legal basis. Thus, owing to its universal acceptability, and a belief carried out from a legal obligation …

India’s data protection law needs refinement
1 year, 8 months ago

India’s data protection law needs refinement

The Hindu  

India is no Europe, and this seems especially true in the face of a task such as drafting and conceptualising a data protection law for over 1.4 billion Indians. The European Union’s data protection law, i.e., the General Data Protection Regulation, came into force in the middle of 2018 and achieved widespread popularity as arguably the most comprehensive data privacy …

Data Protection Bill | Granting government exemption causes great concern, says Justice Srikrishna
1 year, 8 months ago

Data Protection Bill | Granting government exemption causes great concern, says Justice Srikrishna

The Hindu  

“The provisions granting exemption to the government and government bodies from all sections of the law in the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, cause “great concern,” says Justice B.N. The Union Cabinet on July 5 cleared the Bill that essentially allows laypersons to complain to the Data Protection Board of India, consisting of technical experts constituted by the …

New Data Protection Bill receives Cabinet's green light: Here's all you need to know
1 year, 8 months ago

New Data Protection Bill receives Cabinet's green light: Here's all you need to know

India TV News  

India's ongoing efforts to protect privacy and personal data have gained significance in light of the Supreme Court's recognition of privacy as a fundamental right under Article 21 of the Constitution. The need for a robust data protection law became apparent following incidents of data breaches and unauthorized use of personal information by entities before stricter regulations were imposed globally. …

India’s shield of privacy should reflect Article 21
1 year, 8 months ago

India’s shield of privacy should reflect Article 21

Live Mint  

The monsoon session of Indian Parliament will likely take up a bill framed in response to the Supreme Court ruling of 24 August 2017 that said privacy is a fundamental right. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, a draft of which was published last year to replace an unwieldy earlier proposal, got Cabinet approval this week as part of the …

Data protection bill gets Cabinet nod, likely to be introduced in monsoon session
1 year, 8 months ago

Data protection bill gets Cabinet nod, likely to be introduced in monsoon session

Hindustan Times  

The Union cabinet on Wednesday cleared the proposed data protection law, likely to be introduced for discussion during the monsoon session of parliament, paving the way for the country’s first privacy law under which data fiduciaries, government and private, will have to issue a notice to the public declaring the data collected, stored and shared by them, officials familiar with …

Fix govt accountability for personal data leaks
1 year, 9 months ago

Fix govt accountability for personal data leaks

Hindustan Times  

Privacy – that elusive fundamental right – is again under the spotlight with reports of a possible breach of CoWIN data of individuals. Two provisions under the Information Technology Act, 2000 – Section 43A and Section 72A – encompass personal data protection in India. Pursuant to the Puttaswamy judgment of 2017, the central government released multiple drafts of the proposed …

DC Edit | CoWIN data leak breach of trust, must be probed
1 year, 9 months ago

DC Edit | CoWIN data leak breach of trust, must be probed

Deccan Chronicle  

Media reports of a purported breach of crucial data of most, if not all the, beneficiaries, meaning most of the Indians citizens who got vaccinated for Covid, or nearly a billion-odd people, are not only unfortunate if found to be true, but also raise a serious issue concerning the trust of all citizens sharing any data with the government across …

India’s digital public infrastructure, catching the next wave
2 years ago

India’s digital public infrastructure, catching the next wave

The Hindu  

India’s digital public infrastructure, loosely the India Stack and more, is a marvel of our times, shaped in a unique partnership between governments, regulators, the private sector, selfless volunteers, startups, and academia/think tanks. Engendering sustained collective action at scale between so many disparate entities itself is magical and the outcomes are India’s answer to Web 3, perhaps even superior in …

10 Important Data Protection Practices To Keep In Mind For A Startup In India
2 years, 1 month ago

10 Important Data Protection Practices To Keep In Mind For A Startup In India

Live Law  

Recent years have seen a digital boom worldwide resulting in the explosion of digital data collection and distribution. In this regard, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 has been proposed which will ensure fair use and disposal of digital personal data collected online and offline in India and also outside India by companies offering goods and services to individuals …

Explained: Can the National Data Governance Policy be a gamechanger?
2 years, 2 months ago

Explained: Can the National Data Governance Policy be a gamechanger?

The Hindu  

Published : Feb 01, 2023 20:25 IST During her Union Budget speech on February 1, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the government will bring a National Data Governance policy, which will simplify the KYC process while anonymising individual data. While presenting the 2023-24 Union Budget, Sitharaman said, “National Data Governance Policy to be brought out, will enable access to …

Significant controls to govt. under data protection bill to hit investments in data centres: ITI
2 years, 3 months ago

Significant controls to govt. under data protection bill to hit investments in data centres: ITI

The Hindu  

Significant controls and exemptions to the government under the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection bill 2022 are likely to make it harder for companies to invest in data centres and data processing activities in India, according to global technology industry body ITI. The Ministry of Electronics and IT has floated draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 and has invited …

It may hit investment in Data centres: Global technology industry body IT on new data law
2 years, 3 months ago

It may hit investment in Data centres: Global technology industry body IT on new data law

India TV News  

Global technology industry body IT asserted significant controls and exemptions to the government under the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection bill 2022 are likely to make it harder for companies to invest in data centres and data processing activities in India. GOI is also afforded a broad exemption from the Bill's application, which could make it harder for companies to …

Political Line | Public Debate on Privacy
2 years, 3 months ago

Political Line | Public Debate on Privacy

The Hindu  

India’s new draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 is being debated intensely. Privacy activists and legal scholars are concerned that the draft is going in the wrong direction, with the government giving itself too much power to collect data, and snoop on people. The draft DPDP bill reiterates state authority and sovereignty over all questions related to data, including …

Why the new draft data bill must be reconsidered
2 years, 4 months ago

Why the new draft data bill must be reconsidered

Hindustan Times  

Earlier this month, the government released the Digital Data Protection Bill of 2022, and asked for public comments. The government said this iteration provides a progressive and adequate legal framework for data protection in India; and, in particular, having listened to industry critiques of the draft Personal Data Protection Bill of 2018, it has removed onerous provisions regarding the storage …

Data protection bill may need multiple iterations before becoming practical: experts
2 years, 4 months ago

Data protection bill may need multiple iterations before becoming practical: experts

The Hindu  

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, released on Friday, is a mix of hits and misses, with more misses than hits, and would need multiple iterations before becoming practical, according to experts. They have no right to data portability.” “The Data Protection Board is toothless as most power is given to the Executive to prescribe through Rules,” she …

First Principles | What the new Data Protection Bill might look like
2 years, 5 months ago

First Principles | What the new Data Protection Bill might look like

Hindustan Times  

Ever wondered why do you get spammed with phone calls, emails and text messages from service providers of all kinds? In any case, this was the stated intent of the Personal Data Protection Bill which was withdrawn after much work had gone into it earlier in August this year. While the browser is free, the data that Chrome collects about …

India's Digital Independence: What Govt Can Do To Protect Residents Against Data Breaches
2 years, 5 months ago

India's Digital Independence: What Govt Can Do To Protect Residents Against Data Breaches

ABP News  

Personal data exploitation is a goldmine that has been exploited by big players in the digital world. As India steps into the 5G era with ambitious goals set to be achieved within ‘Amrit Kaal’, it needs a robust digital Independence strategy against global personal data exploitation — designed and executed by Indians — in order to maintain control over the …

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