Privacy Meet

The meeting was attended by Justice A.P. Shah, Dr. Gulshan Rai, Dr. Kamlesh Bajaj and others. At this event, Bhairav spoke about the need to develop laws to regulate surveillance and personal data in India. Bhairav further spoke about both the commercial benefits that will accrue from data protection law as well as the national benefit from surveillance regulation and security law. Bhairav also spoke of the need to create a procedure that is just, fair and reasonable and, he highlighted the point that these laws would have to survive constitutional scrutiny by the Supreme Court of India. He also pointed out that meaningful protections lay in creating procedural law that allowed individuals the protection of natural justice and identified magistrates to authorise data collections and interceptions. He further made it clear that India's distinct security situation, both internal and external, warranted a robust surveillance framework that enables law enforcement and strengthens the criminal justice system in manner consistent with the rule of law.