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Clarifications from the JPC Chairman on DPA 2021

Since the release of the draft PDPB 2021, there have been many views expressed by different organizations and some of them are listed below: Comparing the Draft Data Protection Bill 2021 with its predecessors: thequint.com Data Protection Bill: Hits and … Continue reading

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Anonymisation is like Encryption with a destroyed decryption key

If we follow the discussions around the DPA 2021, it appears that there is a confusion regarding the term “Anonymization” and its effect on Personal Data. It is strange that after so much of discussions on the GDPR and the … Continue reading

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PDPA 2021: The data breach notification regarding Non Personal Data

In the new version of PDPA 2021 (We can start calling this DPA 2021 from now onwards) that is replacing PDPB 2019 has indicated under Section 57 that “Obligation to take prompt and appropriate action in response to a data … Continue reading

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PDPA 2021: The Data Protection Officer is now in an elevated professional status

One of the interesting new propositions in the PDPB 2021 as compared to PDPB 2019 is the professional status of the Data Protection Officer. In all data protection laws, there is a requirement that  data controllers/Fiduciaries who handle large number … Continue reading

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PDPA 2021: Regulating the human perceptions

(This is in continuation of our previous article) While discussing the PDPA 2021 and inclusion of  Section 3(23)(xi) we observe the following:   Current PDPB 2019 Section 3(20) Proposed PDPB 2021 Section 3(23) (20) “harm” includes— (i) bodily or mental … Continue reading

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PDPA 2021: Definition of Harm to include psychological manipulation

PDPA is a legislation that is meant to uphold the human right concept of “Privacy”. Privacy is a concept which reflects the “State of Mind” of an individual and a feeling of “being left alone”. According to human psychologists, Hypnotists … Continue reading

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