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Current framework not enough for privacy, stop-gap measure needed: Trai

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Mayank Jain Arnab Datta Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi

Last Updated : Jul 19 2018 | 7:00 AM IST

India’s telecom regulator will need a legal framework to enforce its recently released data protection and privacy recommendations, experts say. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) stated on Monday that people have the primary right to their data and firms can only access data after taking proper consent which makes clear the purpose behind collecting data.

The recommendations go broad in their coverage and speak about data use by websites, apps, telecom operators as well as handset makers. The guidelines seek to bind all entities in a common framework which relies on data ownership and explicit consent. However, not

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