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By Sangeeta Patnaik
India is making rapid strides towards ushering in a new data protection regime. The Draft Personal Data Protection Bill that is under review and is being deliberated by the Joint Parliamentary Committee is expected to sweep through the economy with major revamps to the statutory and regulatory landscape. The current Draft Bill has proposed the establishment of a data regulator the “Data Protection Authority of India (DPA)” which will be entrusted with the “duty to protect the interests of the data principals, prevent any misuse of personal data, ensure compliance with the provisions of the Act and promote awareness about data protection”.
February 1, 2021
For the third consecutive year, following the publication of Gibson Dunn’s ninth annual U.S. Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Outlook and Review on Data Privacy Day, we offer this separate International Outlook and Review.
Like many recent years, 2020 saw significant developments in the evolution of the data protection and cybersecurity landscape in the European Union (“
EU”):
CJEU” or “
Court”) struck down as legally invalid the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, on which some companies relied to transfer personal data from the EU to the U.S. While companies are turning to other frameworks to transfer personal data, such as Standard Contract Clauses (“
d. For any other reasonable purposes
12, the reasonable
purposes include whistle blowing, prevention and detection of any
unlawful activity, mergers and acquisition, credit scoring,
recovery of debt etc.
Rights of the Data Principal
The bill also provides for rights
13 that can be
exercised by a data principal such as the right to seek information
regarding the manner or processing activities undertaken by the
data fiduciary with respect of the personal data. The bill also
gives an opportunity to the data principal to correct and erasure
any personal data.
Social Media Intermediaries
The bill defines
14 Social Media intermediaries as
intermediaries which allow 2 or more users to share, upload,
India s personal data privacy law triggers surveillance fears
The Indian government wants global tech giants like Facebook and Google to store sensitive data of users locally, but critics say this may make users more vulnerable to official surveillance.
Laws in India regarding data privacy were ambiguous for a long time, but in 2017 the country s Supreme Court ruled that the Indian constitution guaranteed a fundamental right to privacy for every citizen.
Recently, however, public debate over the government gathering personal information for India s biometric identification system, Aadhaar, and discussions around data privacy in the EU prompted the Indian government to introduce a Personal Data Protection (PDP) legislation.