At a recent panel discussion on the future of digital, a couple of interesting arguments came up in the context of personal data protection. As readers may know, India doesn’t have a personal data protection law.
A nine-member bench of the Supreme Court unanimously judged personal data privacy was a fundamental right in the case of Puttaswamy vs Union of India in 2017. The Court recommended legislation be drafted to protect personal data.
A committee was formed under retired Justice B N Srikrishna to canvass opinion and draft appropriate legislation, and it submitted a draft Bill in July 2018. The government has
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