Apar GuptaAs reported by the Economic Times, the government has finalized the draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 and plans to release them for public consultation in the second or third week of August 2024.
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Nigeria FCCPC fines Meta $220 million for violating data laws
Nigeria’s Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC) fined Meta Platforms $220 million for violating local data protection and privacy laws. The investigation, spanning 38 months and conducted alongside the Data Protection Commission, found that Meta collected and shared Nigerian users’ data without consent and imposed exploitative privacy policies.
India’s Digital Governance `Model’ Fails on Rights
An Act to cement digital authoritarianism
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is about total state control and having every Indian slip on a digital leash
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 receives assent from the President
The long saga of the data bill holds crucial lessons
The Digital Data Protection Bill, 2023, introduced in Parliament, deviates from recommendations and narrows protections for citizens.
Holes in the Digital Net
In Digital India, individual harms are left unaddressed and the creation of regulatory and institutional frameworks is rejected to favour the mirage of innovation.
Cost of Brevity
The proposed legislation sacrifices legal rigour in favour of a concerning expansion of state power that tilts the law against the interests of individual privacy.
Slowing justice, the committee way
The Pegasus case frames CJI Ramana’s legacy: Great expectations only to be met with greater disappointment.
The issues with maximum data and minimum privacy
Anniversaries, when meaningful, are not mechanical celebrations played out each year, but prompt deeper reflection. This month marks not only 75 years of Independence but also five years of the right to privacy judgment. On August 24, 2017, the Supreme Court reaffirmed privacy to be a fundamental right, linking it to each fundamental right under the Constitution. It prescribed tests that became legal qualifiers for ensuring an effective framework for state and corporate accountability to ensure the autonomy, liberty and dignity for all Indians.