Page 7 - Data Protection

Have set up panel on data protection in India: Centre tells Supreme Court

Asked Facebook, WhatsApp to file affidavits stating part of data users share with third parties

Indian firms yet to realise importance of protecting user data

SC said in Right to Privacy judgment that electronic tracks contain powerful means of information

Give data access to consumers, not companies, says Nandan Nilekani

Former UIDAI Chairman Nandan Nilekani suggest that the government should create a policy framework that gives consumers access to the data they create while using digital services rather than allowing entities build data silos for their own benefit.Arguing that by inverting the control of data away from entities that gather them and giving it to the individuals producing them, India will be able to ensure privacy, keep data colonisation at bay and boost competitiveness. "Every second, three more Indians are experiencing the Internet for the first time (and) is getting headlocked into a digital era at a pace never seen before...But how do you convert this data in such a way that it benefits everybody? That's a strategic question," said Nilekani, at an event in Bengaluru on Wednesday.Taking a view that India is starkly different from the West when it comes to digitisation because people were already rich there when smartphones began making in-roads a decade ago, Nilekani said India ...

Will have regulatory regime on data protection: Govt to SC

Facebook has filed an application raising issues on maintainability of plea against WhatsApp

How to protect your private data when you travel to the United States

Intimidating travellers into revealing passwords is a much greater invasion of privacy