Data privacy conversations are incomplete without acknowledging how leading mobile operating systems have been gaining access to granular data on smartphone users, write Meenaz Munshi, Anushka Bhansali and Hemant Adrakar.
Excerpts from the blog:
"Even a basic minimal...
In this short comic series, we will highlight some data governance dilemmas in the times of the pandemic and share with you our reading list on the subject. This week we discuss health data aggregation and data protection for telehealth. Digital healthcare has become vital dur...
Comic#1 : Purpose Limitation, Trust in Government
As we see various technologies deployed for containing the spread of COVID-19, a lack of adequate purpose limitation and other data protection principles will lead citizens to distrust both the government and the technology...
On Ajay Shah's blog, Suyash Rai, a researcher at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, sheds light on various aspects of data protection. Excerpts:
"A Committee constituted by the Central Government is working on a data protection law. The White Paper publ...
This Livemint article makes the case for consent while protecting data.
Excerpts below:
"But think of the person who cannot read or write. That is roughly 300 million people in India. What are their chances of making an informed choice about whether or not to give their d...
