Monthly Archives: October 2019

I have earlier discussed in these columns matters related to my following RTI application in which I had queried both the RBI and the Ministry of Finance that Trans Union International Inc, an US based Company increased its share holding … Continue reading →

There is a debate presently going on in the Supreme Court of India about the responsibilities of the Social Media Companies such as FaceBook and Twitter in preventing “Fake Accounts” and “Fake News”. It is beyond question that Fake news … Continue reading →

Cyber Law College, a division of Ujvala Consultants Pvt Ltd has introduced a new version of a Course on PDPA (Personal Data Protection Act). This version would include additional modules on Data Governance Framework as well as a discussion on the … Continue reading →

Some people are gloating over the “First Fine under GDPR in Sweden” where a school has been fined 200,000 euros for testing Face recognition technology for attendance monitoring. This move deserves unequivocal condemnation and probably is an example of how … Continue reading →

Today is 17th October, a day of special significance  to all those who use internet and computers or mobiles in India. On this day in 2000, the Information  Technology  Act 2000 was notified.  This gave  legal recognition  to electronic  documents,  … Continue reading →

“Anonymization” takes personal data out of the purview of most data protection regulations. Hence it is one of the objectives of data protection compliance managers to mitigate the data protection risks by pushing part of the “Protected Data” out of … Continue reading →