Data Privacy and Protection

Arbitration that was once supposed to be the panacea for the woes of litigation, has now become complex and expensive due to several factors, such as ‘multiplicity’ of tribunals, awards, references and challenges arising among the same parties, contracts or series of contracts. Multiple arbitrations before different tribunals has led to the increase in “multiplicity of arbitral tribunals”. ......

Amidst the clamour of “data is the new oil” and “data is the new currency”, the Indian government is now looking to regulate the collection, storage, access and usage of personal as well as non-personal data. There are concerns that the Indian government as well as authorities all over the world are struggling to resolve. ......

How many times have all of us promptly shared personal information such as our name, age, mobile number, email address, home address, date of birth and other information that can personally identify us? We have shared such information in restaurants, shopping malls, feedback forms and numerous other such places. ...

The much anticipated Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019("Bill") finally gathered the Cabinet's approval on December 04, 2019, therefore setting the stage for it to be tabled in front of the Parliament in the current winter session....

The twentieth century rock icon, Jim Morrison, reportedly once said, “The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are.” Although it was said in another context, Morrison’s quote reinforces the significance of rights that persons have in protecting their individuality, and the traits and characteristics associated with their person. This is where the notion of ‘personality rights’, as we define it in legal parlance, comes in....

Justice(Retd.) KS Puttuswamy challenged the biometric identity scheme Aadhaar, saying it violated the fundamental right to privacy. The constitutional bench set up to see if privacy is, in fact, a constitutional right, established that it is a constitutionally protected right that emerges from right to life and liberty....