Monthly Archives: January 2024

There is no need to restrict the role of “Consent Manager” to the pre-DPDPA vision.

In many of my recent discussions with experts on the role of “Consent manager” under DPDPA 2023, I have encountered a view that the role of a consent manager under DPDPA is similar to what is envisaged under the Data … Continue reading

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Intellectual Property and Personal Data Protection

Intellectual Property created out of the IPR laws and Personal Data as a property recognized out of a law like DPDPA has some interesting relationship. IPR is associated with an author or an inventor and hence by default discloses the … Continue reading

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GMail must change its policies of e-mail delivery

At a time the MeitY is finalizing the rules to be notified under DPDPA 2023, we need to flag some of the erroneous practices of e-mail providers and domain name registrants that gives raise to Cyber Security concerns under the … Continue reading

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Rs 820 crore fraud in UCO Bank IMPS system busted

CBI has successfully investigated a fraud in UCO Bank where two support engineers manipulated the system which resulted in credits to accounts without a corresponding transfer of money from the sending bank to the receiving bank. See report in NewIndian … Continue reading

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Digi Locker has introduced “Nomination”

DPDPA 2023 has introduced “Nomination” as a right of a data principal. We have in our two previous articles discussed certain aspects of nomination. Why Privacy cannot survive the death of an individual? Relationship between IPR and Privacy It is … Continue reading

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Being Lawful is the first requirement of DGPSI

One of the requirements of DPDPA 2023 as a law of Digital Personal Data Compliance is that Personal Data shall be processed only for lawful purpose. Hence it is a compliance requirement that a Data Fiduciary shall adopt necessary measures … Continue reading

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