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What should an effective data privacy regulator in India look like?

A law to balance rights and interests, in this case between data subjects and data controllers, cannot be successful in the absence of a regulator

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Maansi Verma | The Wire
Multiple scandals involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica have made one thing clear – the failure of market forces to uphold privacy and protect user data. As long as there is demand for data, coupled with weak enforcement of laws, our privacy and data will remain vulnerable in the hands of private players. But it’s not just the private sector, the Edward Snowden revelations were the key to unearthing the extent to which surveillance is entrenched in the systems of government which, in the absence of reform, will only expose our privacy and data to greater risk.

These are the fundamental concerns

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