Data Policy

Average data consumption per user in India reached 19.5GB per user a month in 2022, which is equivalent to 6,600 songs, a report showed on Thursday.

MeitY on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection law, in the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill will also hold the government liable in case of a data breach, a government source said on Saturday. The source said that the bill will only cover aspects around digital data as the Ministry of Electronics and IT's mandate is to deal around digital and cyber space. "The bill is mainly to make those entities accountable that are monetising data. In case of data breach even the government is not exempted," the source said. The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill has exempted certain entities notified as data fiduciaries by the government from various compliances, including sharing details for the purpose of data collection. The draft has come up with various provisions to ensure data handling entities collect data with the explicit consent of individuals (or data principals) and use it only for the purpose for which it has been collected. The draft has proposed a penalty of up to Rs 500 crore in case data fiduciaries or entities ...

Four out of 10 in LocalCircles study point finger towards insurance providers or banks

Smartwatches remained the fastest-growing category, recording 178 per cent YoY growth while earwear accounted for 67.3 per cent of the overall wearables category

The Bengaluru-based firm is setting up data centres in India at a time when it has completed three steps to move its domicile to India

Last month, the government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill from the Lok Sabha and IT Minister had said the Centre was hopeful of getting a new legislation passed by the next Budget Session

Documents were to be open for public comments till September 21, civil society groups protest 'removal'

'Data protection law that we have mentioned, it's not there yet. It's on its way, but it's a fundamental part of the federated digital ID structure and is a must-have that structure moving forward'

India in February published a draft data policy for public consultation saying all data collected, stored by government ministries and departments will be open and shareable barring exceptions

While challenges do exist, the platform is focused on making official data contemporary with a constant mechanism of additions and updates

Apart from the data made available free of cost, data which is chargeable should be appropriately identified as such in public domain: Sebi

India needs a privacy law before data use policy

While the India Data Office will be constituted by MeitY, the India Data Council will be comprised of the India Data Office and data officers of five other govt depts

Irish watchdog to rule on data transfer contract terms

The Indian government asked Twitter for data on 2,200 user accounts in the January-June 2021 period and the micro-blogging platform complied with just 2 per cent of the requests

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Ireland's High Court has dismissed a bid by Facebook bid to block a European Union privacy regulation that could suspend the flow of data from the EU to the US

Facebook has previously filed cases against companies that have developed tools to scrape its user data; LinkedIn also said scraping violates its terms of service