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PDPA 2021: The nature of Data as an Asset and nomination facility

India enacted ITA 2000 (Information Technology Act 2000) with effect from 17th October 2000 and amended it in 2008 with effect from 27th October 2009. The provisions of ITA 2000/8 included legal recognition for a binary expression which we refer … Continue reading

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Data Protection Law in China

China has announced a law called “Personal Information Protection Law” (PIPL) on 20th August 2021, coming into effect on 1st November 2021. The PIPL is having 74 articles divided into 8 chapters as follows: General Provisions; Personal Information Processing Rules; … Continue reading

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Data Protection Journal of India ..Latest issue is now available

  Data has a value as everybody understands. But we need to go further in our discussion on what is the value of data, how it can be computed and how it can be brought into the balance sheet etc. … Continue reading

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Data as a class of property

On different occasions we have discussed the implication of “Data” as a property class. The early discussions on “Data” as a property in legal circles was around the property of “Domain Name”. It was one of the first “Pure Virtual … Continue reading

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CEAC starts “Will Repository service” for Digital Assets

In continuation of the concerns that Naavi.org has expressed regarding the need to recognize and document the transfer of digital assets of deceased data principals, Cyber Evidence Archival Center (CEAC) which is a division of Ujvala Consultants Private Limited has … Continue reading

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Loss of Mr Neeraj Arora…

It was a shocking news to receive today that our friend and a Cyber Law expert Mr Neeraj Arora is no more. It appears that he had recently recovered from Covid but succumbed to cardiac arrest. Mr Neeraj Arora was … Continue reading

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