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Agencies empowered under Sec 69. No Need to raise a false alarm

 The uninformed media is at work since morning commenting on the MHA Order notifying additional agencies empowering use of powers under Section 69 of ITA 2000/8. Refer notification here: According to the notification, 10 agencies such as the IB, ED, … Continue reading

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The 18 year Journey Since the Digital Society was born in India

Information Technology Act 2000 (ITA 2000) was notified on 17th October 2000 and today is the 18th year after India legally recognized the Electronic Document as equivalent to Paper Document and Digital Signature as equivalent to physical signature leading to … Continue reading

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Let Data Protection Law of India define the Instrument creating a Data Fiduciary

The Draft of Personal Data Protection Act 2018 (PDPA 2018) which is being discussed in the Parliament has one extremely important hurdle to be crossed. The hurdle is how to establish a relationship between the Data Principal and the Data … Continue reading

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Last Day for Comments on PDPA 2018 is 10th October

The draft of the Personal Data Protection Act 2018 has been submitted by the Justice Srikrishna Committee along with its report. Copies of both are available at  www.pdpa2018.in. The Government of India has requested for public comments to be submitted on … Continue reading

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Aadhar Judgement-10: Let us debate the changes required in PDPA 2018

This is in continuation of the series of articles on this topic Over the last 9 articles on Aadhaar Judgement, I have provided some views on the interpretation of the Judgement specifically with reference to the upcoming PDPA 2018 which … Continue reading

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Aadhaar Judgement-9: Definition of Personal Information revised?

This is in continuation of our earlier Article in this topic The judgement of the three judges made a significant observation which may leave a significant impact on the PDPA 2018. While answering the question “Whether the Aadhaar Act violates … Continue reading

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