Kochhar & Co. reports that Government of India released fourth draft of India’s proposed privacy law, now renamed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. The draft law uses terminology similar to past versions: the data controller is called the data fiduciary data subject.
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India’s new data protection bill makes a good show of user rights but can it deliver on its promises?
India’s new data protection bill makes a good show of user rights but can it deliver on its promises?
Prabhjote GillMar 10, 2021, 08:25 IST
Internet users in India have to choose between the over reach of private companies or the governmentBI India
India’s Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 is likely to be placed in front of Parliament sometime this month.
The underlying goal of the proposed laws is to assign rights to users over the collecting, storage and usage of their information.
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The book Lives of Data: Essays on Computational Cultures from India , edited by Sandeep Mertia, delivers a fantastic range of meditations on how data lives, and how we, as individuals and collectives, are shaped by it.
File photo of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) collecting data from a citizen for Aadhar. Photo: Reuters.
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About a decade ago, the CEO of a data analytics firm I worked for in Bangalore vied for the data that would be produced by Aadhaar as it was expected to connect to a series of other datasets that practically governed our life. His repeated request to the representatives of the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), at a presentation which the latter made on the companyâs premises, was simply to hand over the data to him. For a company whose main line of work was to interpret data for âintelligenceâ, which is to mine data for pointers on how to prolife
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Please wait. As part of WhatsApp s business vision in October 2020, in order to enable small businesses better, we are updating our terms of service and privacy policy as we work to make WhatsApp a great way to get answers or help from a business, said a WhatsApp spokesperson in response to ET’s queries on the development.
Those who do not accept the updated privacy policy, which comes into force in February, will no longer be able to access the chats on the messaging platform, according to alerts being sent to users in India since early this week.