Data Protection Bill
Is India the Wild West of data privacy?
February 2, 2021
The parliamentary panel on Information Technology has been holding discussions on the Personal Data Protection Bill for almost a year now. Even as the bill stays in a draft stage, on the ground a lot has changed that would make a material difference to data privacy and protection...
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Let Data Protection Authority regulate nonpersonal data, disband panel: IFF
January 23, 2021
Internet and privacy activist group Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has urged the government to immediately disband the panel headed by former Infosys chairman Kris Gopalakrishnan that drafted the report on nonpersonal data as well as its revised version. The revised draft is...
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India among the worst countries for privacy protection
October 17, 2019
According to a study by the Britain-based firm Comparitech, India is the third worst non-EU country in terms of digital privacy protection and state of surveillance.
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