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The Centre for Internet and Society’s comments and recommendations to the: The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022
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Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi
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Jan 20, 2023
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Digital Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
The Centre for Internet & Society (CIS) published its comments and recommendations to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, on December 17, 2022.
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Demystifying Data Breaches in India
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Pawan Singh
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Oct 17, 2022
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filed under:
Privacy,
Internet Governance,
Data Governance,
Data Protection,
Data Management
Despite the rate at which data breaches occur and are reported in the media, there seems to be little information about how and when they are resolved. This post examines the discourse on data breaches in India with respect to their historical forms, with a focus on how the specific terminology to describe data security incidents has evolved in mainstream news media reportage.
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NHA Data Sharing Guidelines – Yet Another Policy in the Absence of a Data Protection Act
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Shweta Mohandas and Pallavi Bedi
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Sep 29, 2022
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filed under:
IT Act,
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
In July this year, the National Health Authority (NHA) released the NHA Data Sharing Guidelines for the Pradhan Mantri Jan Aarogya Yojana (PM-JAY) just two months after publishing the draft Health Data Management Policy.
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CCTVs in Public Spaces and the Data Protection Bill, 2021
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Anamika Kundu and Digvijay S Chaudhary
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published
Apr 28, 2022
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
This article has been authored by Ms. Anamika Kundu, Research Assistant at the Centre for Internet and Society, and Digvijay S. Chaudhary, Researcher at the Centre for Internet and Society. This blog is a part of RSRR’s Blog Series on the Right to Privacy and the Legality of Surveillance, in collaboration with the Centre for Internet & Society.
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Personal Data Protection Bill must examine data collection practices that emerged during pandemic
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Shweta Mohandas and Anamika Kundu
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Mar 30, 2022
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
The PDP bill is speculated to be introduced during the winter session of the parliament soon. The PDP Bill in its current form provides wide-ranging exemptions which allow government agencies to process citizen’s data in order to fulfil its responsibilities. The bill could ensure that employers have some responsibility towards the data they collect from the employees.
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Nothing to Kid About – Children's Data Under the New Data Protection Bill
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Shweta Mohandas and Anamika Kundu
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published
Mar 10, 2022
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filed under:
Digitalisation,
Digital Knowledge,
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Data Management
The pandemic has forced policymakers to adapt their approach to people's changing practices, from looking at contactless ways of payment to the shifting of educational institutions online.
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Clause 12 Of The Data Protection Bill And Digital Healthcare: A Case Study
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Amber Sinha
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published
Mar 01, 2022
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filed under:
Data Governance,
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
In light of the state’s emerging digital healthcare apparatus, how does Clause 12 alter the consent and purpose limitation model?
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How Function Of State May Limit Informed Consent: Examining Clause 12 Of The Data Protection Bill
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Amber Sinha
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published
Mar 01, 2022
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filed under:
Data Governance,
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
The collective implication of leaving out ‘proportionality’ from Clause 12 is to provide very wide discretionary powers to the state.
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CIS Comments and Recommendations on the Data Protection Bill, 2021
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by
Pallavi Bedi and Shweta Mohandas
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published
Feb 14, 2022
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filed under:
Internet Governance,
Data Protection,
Privacy
This document is a revised version of the comments we provided on the 2019 Bill on 20 February 2020, with updates based on the amendments in the 2021 Bill.
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The Competition Law Case Against Whatsapp’s 2021 Privacy Policy Alteration
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by
Aman Nair and Arindrajit Basu
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published
Dec 31, 2020
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last modified
Mar 24, 2021 04:12 PM
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filed under:
Consumer Rights,
Digital Economy,
Data Protection,
Facebook,
Competition,
WhatsApp,
Competition Law
Having examined the privacy implications of Whatsapp's changes to its privacy policy in 2021, this issue brief is the second output in our series examining the effects of those changes. This brief examines the changes in the context of data sharing between Whatsapp and Facebook as being an anticompetitive action in violation of the Indian Competition Act, 2002.
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