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Transgender Law: A step towards an inclusive workplace

November 2020
By Resham Jain on 30 November, 2020 For a long time, transgender persons have been excluded from contributing towards socio-economic activities and decision-making processes. So much so that it was only during...
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H&M and the curious case of employee personal data

October 2020
It is not unusual for Indian employers to collect extensive personal and sensitive personal data of their employees. From the more obvious personal identifiers, to sensitive information such as marital...
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Draft health data management policy – A futile attempt?

September 2020
On August 26, 2020, the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MoHFW) published the draft Health Data Management Policy (Policy). MoHFW has been advocating for digitisation of health records, creation...
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Non-personal data governance framework – Indian proposal – Part II

August 2020
In the earlier post Part I, we delved into some of the recommendations made by the Committee of Experts on Non-Personal Data (NPD Committee)[1] in its report of July 12, 2020 (Report)[2]. We discussed...
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Non-personal data governance framework – Indian proposal – Part I

August 2020
In September 2019, the Government constituted the Committee of Experts to study various issues relating to Non-Personal Data (NPD), and make recommendations for its regulation (NPD Committee)[1]. NPD Committee released...
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Contact tracing for COVID-19: A global snapshot of utility-privacy trade-off

May 2020
There is global consensus that COVID-19 transmission chain can be interjected with containment measures. Containment efforts require rapid identification and quarantine of potential carriers or “contacts” who may have contacted...
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Coronavirus goes phishing

April 2020
COVID-19 has brought the world to a stand-still. It is rightly being called “infodemic” due to the efflux of related (mis)information on the internet. Since January 2020, 16,000 coronavirus-related domains...
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COVID-19 : Privacy on the second rung?

March 2020
COVID-19 has de-globalized the world and yet, ushered a new global citizenship, where the order is simple – solidarity in isolation. In battling the highly contagious pandemic, governments are focused...
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Regulating non-personal data: Indian case

March 2020
Non-personal data broadly refers to data that standalone or in combination with other data does not directly or indirectly result in identification of a natural person (NPD). These data sets...
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Cross-border data transfer – India’s attempt at data localization

February 2020
Regulating flow of data across national borders is increasingly viewed as an essential mechanism for implementing national data protection and privacy laws extraterritorially. Most jurisdictions impose conditions on when and...
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