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...
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Evolution of the Privacy legal framework in India:India did not have a specific privacy law on personal data protection and the use of personal data has been governed as per the provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000. There are other laws namely Indian Penal Code 1860,...
the Rules under this Act have yet to be notified. As such, until the Rules and the Data Protection Board are notified under this Act, we will continue to adhere to the existing legislation in this domain. To reiterate, inJustice K.S. Puttaswamy & Anr. v Union of India &...
implications insofar as the law governing data protection and privacy is concerned. The proposed Bill and the extant laws will now entail going through the strictures and/or frameworks concerning life and personal liberty of the citizens, as enumerated under Article 21 of the Constitution of India....
the European Parliament and the Council of European Union enforced “General Data Protection Regulation” (GDPR), which has been the core point of discussion about data protection and privacy. The Justice BN Srikrishna committee took note of this in its report, and the proposed bill does reflect...
1.1 Laws Legislation Currently in Place The Electronic Transactions Law under Law No 20 of 2014 (“E-Transactions Law”) and its Implementing Regulations under Decision No 48 of 2014 (“Regulations”) currently regulate the protection of private and public data of electronic records such as signatu...
("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"), some of which are not readily found in other laws including the European Union's General Data Protection ...
Looking ahead, 2024 promises to be another eventful year in the world of data protection and privacy law. New laws continue to come online across the globe. In 2023, we saw the long-awaited arrival of an omnibus data protection law in India, the world’s fastest growing economy and a foc...
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. ...