SRIKRISHNA COMMITTEE

The Supreme Court directed the Maharashtra government to implement its directions regarding disposal of cases, compensation for victims of the 1992 Mumbai riots, and police reforms. The court was displeased with the non-compliance of its earlier dir...

India needs a robust regulatory data protection framework to counteract consumer mistrust. Sensitive personal information people routinely provide, including bank details and insurance data, must be secure, particularly in regard to its pace of digi...

The Supreme Court in its 2018 judgement had held that Aadhaar could be used for welfare, but it recognised a fundamental right to privacy and struck down Section 57 of the Aadhaar Act that enabled private entities to use Aadhaar authentication to es...

“The CBI should have acted much earlier. They filed this FIR in early 2019 and it took them three-four years to arrest the culprits and that too on such flimsy grounds that the high court had to release them. It appears that they solely arrested her...

The retired judge also called for distinction between sensitive personal data and critical personal data, and flagged that even basic data about some people such as the chief of army or the President may be too critical to be stored in foreign locat...

​​The bottom line is that they are not in a position to pass a law to deal with the protection of personal data of citizens of India. So, we should wait and watch on what other factors they will consider as and when they do it (referring to the comp...

​Among the options being discussed is the introduction of fresh legislation that can cater to the ongoing "sea change in the local and global technology (environment)", those aware of the thinking within government circles said.

In today's ETtech Morning Dispatch newsletter, Paytm IPO is likely "before November" this year; Delhivery raises more than Rs 2,000 crore ahead of its IPO next year; and Zerodha's profit more than doubled in FY21.

Srikrishna described the face-off between the central government and global social media platforms over the new IT rules as well as other attempts to gag voices speaking against the government as an 'undeclared emergency'.

A bench comprising Chief Justice S A Bobde and Justices A S Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian delivered its verdict on a batch of pleas including the one filed by the Ramchndrapura Math. The 'Math' had filed an appeal against a Karnataka High Court's ju...

Another person said the CBI is scrutinising the evidence collected so far and plans to summon the accused shortly for questioning.

Govt is in a last-mile huddle with agencies to find ways to exempt them from the Personal Data Protection Bill.

Today, blockchain technology, with its wide applications and inherent traits of immutability and hack-resistance, is an obvious choice for record-keeping in a secure, transparent and traceable manner.

The BN Srikrishna committee has proposed that violations of the data protection law should be treated as a cognisable and non-bailable offence, and the investigation should be conducted by an officer not below the rank of an inspector.

Justice BN Srikrishna committee, which was set up last year, has submitted its report on data protection.

“A lot of the inspiration for the Srikrishna committee comes from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),” said Sunil Abraham, executive director, Center for Internet and Society.

Aadhaar architect Nandan Nilekani said Justice Srikrishna panel has given a balanced opinion on Aadhaar provisions. UIDAI will now come under the purview of Data Protection law. Someone who's not happy with UIDAI can now appeal under the new law. He...

The Justice BN Srikrishna committee submitted its report on the data protection law to the government on Friday. The panel report recommends amendments in Aadhaar Act. The report was keenly awaited by all for its implications on data handling and pr...

“The public and private sector are collecting and using personal data on an unprecedented scale," the Committee of Experts noted.