Recent incidents at Indian airports involving passenger’s Aadhaar’s numbers had brought to light the need for stricter regulations on data privacy. Several Jet Airways passengers have complained that the airlines printed their Aadhaar numbers on their boarding passes without even informing them. Publishing Aadhaar numbers is...
Several right-leaning groups have recently called on Congress to act on a bill that would allow US law enforcement to access American data stored on overseas servers. Last Wednesday, groups such as Americans for Tax Reform and the R Street Institute pressed the House and...
Observers have noted that lawmakers are looking to capitalize on the public’s outrage generated by the recent Equifax breach by passing bills that will raise the accountability of companies which profit from the information of regular citizens. Two bills have already been introduced last September. The...
After a number of decisions that questioned the country’s data retention law, Ireland’s Department of Justice finally introduced proposals for a Communications (Retention of Data) Bill 2017. It is said that retired chief justice John Murray’s review of the data retention legislation was prompted by...
Several experts have recently expressed their opinion on the new data protection law India is set to roll out. At the recently concluded Data Protection and Privacy seminar, DSCI founder Kamlesh Bajaj said that data-driven innovation should be the core of the new law, and...
At Disini & Disini Law’s recent “Countdown to Data Privacy” seminar, National Privacy Commission’s Ivy Patdu called on the government and businesses not to see data privacy compliance as a mere “checklist” or a burden. She said that while it is easy to pass procedures and...
Reports say that the UK government has hinted that British data protection laws will be kept ‘aligned’ to the EU’s even after Brexit. Officials have said that there will be continuity with the current rules that govern data protection, and in fact, might allow Britain to...
In a landmark verdict made last Thursday, India’s Supreme Court has ruled that Article 21 of India’s constitution guarantees citizens right to privacy. In a case that ran for years, the court composed of nine judges overturned earlier rulings which stated that privacy isn’t a fundamental...
Andrea Voßhoff, Germany’s Federal data protection commissioner recommended that data created by autonomous and connected cars should be kept anonymous, and car users should be able to delete personal data unless there are legal explanations as to why the information should stay logged. Andrea Voßhoff also...