Although 'protection of right to privacy, property and data' is not specified in the article, the Supreme Court of India interprets and includes it under 'personal liberty'. The IT Act of 2000 was introduced to enact growth of electronic based transactions, to provide legal recognition for e...
To tactfully mitigate issues arising from cybercrimes, along with the other challenges around data privacy in recent years, there were multiple amendments and various Rules formulated supplementing the IT Act, such as the Information Technology (Intermediaries Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Ru...
India's unique socio-economic landscape, coupled with its diverse digital ecosystem, presents specific challenges in safeguarding personal data against misuse. Addressing these challenges is critical to ensuring that the benefits of AI are not overshadowed by potential risks to individual privacy. ...
Meanwhile -- and this may be fortuitous or deleterious, depending on how you interpret it -- theTelecom Authority of India(TRAI) that keeps tabs on the telecom sector in the country one-upped the Srikrishna committee andpublished its ownset of recommendations on data privacy, heavily favouring...
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDPA): Significantly, this law covers all of India's 1.4 billion people. While the law broadly mirrors the GDPR, it includes some variation, notably in the form of government exemptions. Reduce Complexity and Risk With a Compliance Platform This...
India's Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said Aarogya Setu "has a robust data security architecture." How does it compare? "India has no national data privacy law, and it's not clear who has access to data from the app an...
With the gamut of laws regulating collection and usage of various types of data, the data protection regime in India is still not exhaustive enough, and several concerns are being raised to further secure and adequately deal with the complex issues including loss of data and consequent privacy. ...
U.S. statutes that cover privacy issues include the following: Privacy Act of 1974.This law established a code of fair information practices to govern the collection, processing, management, dissemination and destruction of PII. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.Enacted in 1996,HIPAA...
Singapore Privacy India's omnibus data protection legislation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("India's DPDPA"), was passed and gazetted in August 2023. Notably, it shares several common concepts with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("Singapore's PDPA"...
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