The first country to seriously address the issue of protecting digital personal data was the United States of America. In a report titled Records, Computers and the Rights of Citizens issued in 1973, it set out a list of data protection principles called the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs). FIPPs required organizations to provide notice…
The MSME industry body India SME Forum on Wednesday called for reduced data compliance for micro, small and medium enterprises that rely on third-party advertising and data analytics as the country’s data protection laws take shape. After startups’ resistance to the high cost of compliance with data protection laws, it’s the turn of small and…
Most assumed this meant managers who would map the consent provided by a data principal (the individual to whom the personal data relates) with the ways in which that data could be used. Also Read: Mint Explainer: The digital personal data protection Act, its rules, and roadblocks With onerous laws like Europe’s General Data Protection…
South Korea’s data protection authority has announced it will seek clarification from Chinese tech startup DeepSeek regarding its handling of users’ personal information. This comes after the company unveiled its powerful new AI chatbot, the R1, which has raised concerns over data privacy and sparked turmoil in global tech markets. DeepSeek’s R1 chatbot is being…
The Chinese artificial intelligence app, DeepSeek, has been temporarily removed from the Apple and Google app stores in Italy, following a request from the country’s data protection authority for more information regarding its handling of personal data. The app’s removal, which occurred on Wednesday, came just a day after the Italian regulator, the Garante, raised…
In today’s world, the internet is a huge part of our daily lives, and Google is one of the most used tools to find information. Whether you are just curious or doing serious research, Google seems to have all the answers. But there is a catch: some things you search for could lead to serious…
In the first place, the report relies too heavily on regulatory principles developed by countries of the Global North. While there is no harm studying these approaches, we should give some thought to how they will work in the Indian context before imitating them blindly. Countries make risk-reward trade-offs that are appropriate to their advanced…
India’s population today has surpassed 1.4 billion (World Bank, 2023). While a significant portion of the population remains young, with those aged 15-29 comprising around 27% (UNFPA, 2023), the number of senior citizens has also surged to more than 10% of the population, or roughly 140 million people (Ministry of Statistics, 2023). Also read: The…
For almost as long as I can remember, commercial organizations have oriented their sales teams to acquire massive data-sets of personal data—from names and email addresses to mobile numbers—so that they can be converted into leads. They have put in place massive call centres to use this information to reach out to as many people…
