[Mohammed Ibrahim Faisal is a fourth-year law student at PES University. In this piece, the author examines the growing digital afterlife industry, where thanabots simulate the deceased using their lifetime personal data, and analyses whether India’s constitutional and data protection framework can accommodate postmortem privacy in this context. The piece argues that the extinguishment…
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A Critical Analysis of the Publicly Available Data Exemption in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
[This article has been co-authored by Arpanjot Kaur and Shubham Thakare, third-year students at the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru. It critically examines Section 3(c)(ii) of India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which exempts “publicly available” personal data from protection, arguing that its vague language creates a massive loophole that undermines the…
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill: A Move Towards an Orwellian State?
This post has been authored by Raghav Saha, a 3rd year student at Gujarat National Law University. Introduction It has been more than five years since the Apex court held the Right to Privacy to be a fundamental right. Nevertheless, the Government struggles to grasp the idea of protecting the rights of its citizens over…
Data Protection in EdTech Start-ups: An Analysis
[This post is authored by Oshi Priya, a third-year student at the National Law University of Study and Research in Law, Ranchi.] Education technology (EdTech) is the means to facilitate e-learning through the combination of software and computer hardware along with educational theory. Though still in its early stages of development, it’s a $700 million…
Data Protection of Deceased Individuals: The Legal Quandry
This post has been authored by Purbasha Panda and Lokesh Mewara, fourth and fifth years from NLU Ranchi. It discusses the data protection laws for deceased individuals, and the legal justifications for post-mortem privacy. Post-mortem privacy is defined as the right of a person to preserve and control what formulates his/her reputation after death. It is…
Bare Text Comparison of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 with the General Data Protection Rules : Part II – Right to Confirmation and Access
INTRODUCTION TO SERIES The Personal Data Protection Bill has garnered a fair degree of attention in the last few weeks. For the uninitiated, a brief description of the Bill and its significance can be found here. The purpose of this series is to analyze the bare text of the Data Principal Rights espoused in the…
Bare Text Comparison of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 with the General Data Protection Rules : Part I – Right to Data Portability
INTRODUCTION TO SERIES The Personal Data Protection Bill has garnered a fair degree of attention in the last few weeks. For the uninitiated, a brief description of the Bill and its significance can be found here. The purpose of this series is to analyze the bare text of the Data Principal Rights espoused in the…
Comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill 2018 – V
[Ed Note : The following post, the fifth post in the series of posts containing comments to the Report and Draft Bill, 2018 published on the MeitY website, has been authored and compiled by students of NALSAR University of Law. This post contains comments on data localisation framework put forth by the Committee. The first…
Comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill 2018 – IV
[Ed Note : The following post, the fourth post in the series of posts containing comments to the Report and Draft Bill, 2018 published on the MeitY website, has been authored and compiled by students of NALSAR University of Law. This post contains comments on the amendment to Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act, 2005…
Comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill 2018 – III
[Ed Note : The following post, the third post in the series of posts containing comments to the Report and Draft Bill, 2018 published on the MeitY website, has been authored and compiled by students of NALSAR University of Law. This post contains comments on the enforcement mechanism of the Draft Bill, 2018. The first…