Kalindhi Bhatia
Privacy Week Series: Grounds for processing personal data
Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia and Prashant Daga With great power comes great responsibility. In privacy terms, this can be...
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Kalindhi Bhatia
- Jan 27
- 2 min
Privacy Week Series: Status of children's data under the Indian Privacy Regime
(Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) On the 4th day of Privacy Week, we examine the status of children's data under the...
Kalindhi Bhatia
- Jan 26
- 2 min
Privacy Week Series: Analyzing cross-border data transfer mechanisms
(Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) This privacy week we will walk you through the different facets of the Indian...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Jan 4
- 3 min
Draft Amendment to the Intermediaries Rules 2021 - Regulation of online gaming
(Vikram Jeet Singh & Prashant Daga) On January 02, 2023, the (Indian) Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (“MEITY”)...
Suruchi Kotoky
- Dec 23, 2022
- 3 min
Regulatory State of Play IoT Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Communications
Suruchi Kotoky India has one of the world’s most vibrant telecom markets, with more than 1170.45 million telecom subscribers, poised to...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Dec 9, 2022
- 5 min
The More Things Change … Unpacking the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022
Vikram Jeet Singh and Prashant Daga [This article is the second article in a two-part series on the subject. You may read the first...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Nov 30, 2022
- 6 min
Third Time's the Charm? Unpacking the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022
Vikram Jeet Singh and Prashant Daga [This article is the first in a two-part series on the subject] Ever since the Indian Supreme Court...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Nov 24, 2022
- 5 min
‘Lessons Learned’ in Data Regulation: A first look at India’s new Data Privacy Bill
Vikram Jeet Singh Last week India released a new draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (“2022 Bill”). The 2022 Bill follows a...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Nov 19, 2022
- 1 min
India's draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 released today
(Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Data) In the latest twist in the data privacy saga in India, the Ministry of Electronics...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Nov 8, 2022
- 4 min
How India's new draft telecom law may impact data privacy?
India moved to overhaul its ageing telecommunications laws in late September 2022, by releasing a new draft Telecommunications Bill, 2022...
Kalindhi Bhatia
- Oct 13, 2022
- 5 min
NFTs in India – Where do they fit in?
NFTs are tokens that represent ownership of rights in underlying digital content, which is recorded on a blockchain. While...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Aug 17, 2022
- 4 min
India’s Data Privacy Bill Withdrawn: Why did this happen, and what happens next?
Like the flying car or the new ‘Game of Thrones’ novel, India’s new data privacy law had been described as being ‘almost ready’ and ‘a...
Aishwarya Kaushiq
- Jul 27, 2022
- 6 min
The ‘actual knowledge’ conundrum – Proposed amendments to Indian Intermediary Safe Harbour Rules
(Aishwarya Kaushiq & Prashant Daga) The Internet as we know it today owes its existence to a rule that was crystallized in the mid-90s,...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Jun 21, 2022
- 3 min
India's New Guidelines against misleading advertisements and online betting advisory
Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia and Prashant Daga The Indian advertising landscape has changed substantively since 2019 when a new...
Kalindhi Bhatia
- Jun 14, 2022
- 9 min
EDPB’s Report On Government Data Access – The View From India
(Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) Introduction and Background A lot changed on July 16, 2020, when the Court of Justice of the European...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Jun 10, 2022
- 1 min
Fresh Amendments Proposed to Indian Intermediary Safe Harbor Rules
You will remember that India’s online intermediary safe harbor rules were amended in mid-2021, pursuant to the Information Technology...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- Jun 1, 2022
- 5 min
Privacy and children's data - Issues and challenges in 2022
(Vikram Jeet Singh and Prashant Daga) Context One of the biggest impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on children, their education,...
Kalindhi Bhatia
- Jun 1, 2022
- 4 min
Unresolved Legal Issues around Virtual Digital Assets in India
(Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) The 2008 financial crisis was largely attributed to misconduct by banks, and created a shift in public...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- May 31, 2022
- 7 min
Unpacking the New Privacy Regime in India: The When, Who, What, and How?
Vikram Jeet Singh More than 4 years after the Indian Supreme Court declared informational privacy to be a fundamental right, a new draft...
Vikram Jeet Singh
- May 4, 2022
- 3 min
New Cybersecurity Incident Reporting Directions
(Vikram Jeet Singh, Kalindhi Bhatia & Prashant Daga) The Indian Information Technology Act, 2000 (“IT Act”) designates the Indian...
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