Data Privacy

Every customer engagement is governed by a contractual agreement that establishes the scope of work, roles and responsibilities, liabilities, and remedies in the event of a breach. Most customer engagements involve some form of personal data handling by a service provider on behalf of its customers....

Anonymisation and pseudonymisation are essential privacy-enhancing measures employed to protect personal data. In the domain of data protection and privacy compliance, the techniques are key and if they are employed correctly it can lead to a drastic reduction in privacy and information security ris...

Recruitment is an essential process in any organization and involves the collection and processing of significant amounts of personal data from candidates. As recruitment practices increasingly go digital, safeguarding this data becomes ever more crucial.  In India, any kind of personal data proces...

Cyber Incidents and Data Breaches in India The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (“CERT-In”) according to its annual report for the year 2022 stated that it handled close to 14 lakh cyber incidents that year. Further in 2023, according to private cybersecurity agencies India was ranked in ...

Data Transfers between the European Union and the United States of America One of the objectives of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is to allow the free flow of personal data between the member states of the European Union (“EU”) and to countries outside the EU. In this newsl...

Introduction   India’s dedicated Data Privacy legislation, the Digital Personnel Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), marks a significant milestone in the country’s regulatory landscape. Building upon our previous newsletters, where we explored topics such as consent, rules and the fo...

Introduction Consent, put in simple terms, is granting permission or approval for something. In legal terms, Consent is when someone voluntarily and willingly agrees to a proposition made by another person. In terms of personal data, ‘Consent’ means giving permission or approval to another perso...

The Data Protection Board of India A recent media report stated that the Ministry of Electronics, and Information Technology (MeitY) has appointed the current joint secretary, Mr Sanket S Bhondve, as the Officer on Special Duty (OSD) for setting up of the Data Protection Board under the Digital Pers...

Presenting the July edition of our Data Privacy newsletter covering India’s new privacy regulations that are soon to be tabled before the Parliament. ...