[Ed Note : The following post, the second 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 Report and Draft bill in relation to the AADHAR…
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Comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill 2018 – I
[Ed Note : The following series of posts contain comments on the Srikrishna Committee Report and the Draft Data Protection Bill, 2018 made and compiled by students from NALSAR University of Law -Ankush Rai, Ashwin Murthy, Arvind Pennathur, Namratha Murugesan, Priyamvadha Shivaji, Shweta Rao, Sriram Kashyap, Vishal Rakhecha and Tanvi Apte. The comments have been uploaded…
The Data Protection Act
[Ed Note : The following is a guest post by Mr. Shailesh Gandhi, Former Central Information Commissioner under the framework of the RTI Act 2005, who has graciously agreed to express his views through this platform] If any proof was required that the RTI Act is seriously threatening the arbitrary and corrupt actions of those…
The Data Protection Dilemma And Why Context Matters
Ed. Note: This post by Shweta Rao is a part of the TLF Editorial Board Test 2018 In today’s day and age, where a majority of our lives are documented on the internet through online registrations, Instagram uploads and various social media profiles; data collection and the protections around the same are becoming exceedingly critical….
Geospatial Data Deregulation and Personal Data Protection
[This post has been authored by Varsha Rajesh, a final year law student at School of Law, Christ University, Bangalore.] In February 2021, the Department of Science and Technology of the Government of India issued the Guidelines for acquiring and producing geospatial data and geospatial data services including Maps which applies to entities collecting geospatial…
Facial Recognition and Data Protection: A Comparative Analysis of laws in India and the EU (Part I)
[This two-part post has been authored by Riddhi Bang and Prerna Sengupta, second year students at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Part II can be found here] With the wave of machine learning and technological development, a new system that has arrived is the Facial Recognition Technology (FRT). From invention to accessibility, this technology has…
Facial Recognition and Data Protection: A Comparative Analysis of laws in India and the EU (Part II)
[This two-part post has been authored by Riddhi Bang and Prerna Sengupta, second year students at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. Part I can be found here] Procuring Data from Private Entities The PDPB allows the government to compel entities to disclose information that does not constitute personal data. This includes data processing by law…
Data Protection: Consumer Perspectives at Facebook Design Jam
[Ed Note: This post is the first in a series of posts by members of TLF who attended the Facebook Design Jam in Hyderabad on 10 July 2019. It has been authored by Namratha Murugeshan, a final year student at NALSAR University of Law and member of TLF.] Members of TLF’s Organizing Committee were invited…
GCC’s Next Frontier: Governing AI, Data and Innovation through a National Framework
[Madhvendra Jha and Trayambak Pathak are third-year law students at Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University, Lucknow. In this piece, the authors interrogate whether India’s fragmented regulatory architecture can effectively govern GCCs as they evolve from back-office service centres into AI-driven innovation hubs. The piece argues that India needs a unified National GCC Framework…
Priced by Design: Generative AI, Drip Pricing, and India’s Consumer Protection Gap
[Ishana Saraf is a second-year student at Rajiv Gandhi National University of Law. In this piece, the author interrogates how generative AI shopping assistants contribute to drip pricing by generating hallucinated low-price estimates that fall outside the scope of India’s existing dark pattern regulations. The piece argues that RLHF-induced optimism bias in AI training, not…