Author Archives: Vijayashankar Na

From Today, L G Electronics has introduced a new provision for access to the Smart TV feature requiring acceptance of 5 different agreements including the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Viewing Information Agreement, Voice Information and Interest based advertisement agreement. … Continue reading →

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 (DPDPB 2022) provides the following rights to the data principals namely 1.Right to Access 2.Right to Correction and erasure 3.Right to Grievance Redressal 4.Right to Nominate There is no specific mention about the “Right … Continue reading →

Naavi had introduced the framework of PDPSI as Personal Data Protection Standard of India to provide a framework of compliance for compliance of PDPB 2019, the earlier draft Bill for data protection in India. However, when JPC 2 modified the … Continue reading →

One of the first things Companies look for in the Data Protection Bill is what is the cost of non compliance. It appears that the Government has been a little generous to the industry in this respect. The first observation … Continue reading →

The drafting of  DPDA 2022 signifies an approach completely different from the drafting principles adopted earlier. It appears that an entirely different team worked on the Bill. It is not clear if the Ministry of Law would be comfortable with … Continue reading →

The draft of DPDPB 2022 (Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022) has been very cleverly drafted by avoiding unnecessary details to give less scope for critics. The Bill seems to adopt a principle that the Act needs to contain only … Continue reading →