VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

Now that the justice BN Srikrishna committee has submitted a draft Data Protection as well as the Personal Data Protection bill, 2018 (pdf) to the Narendra Modi government, the wait for comprehensive data protection rights may soon be over.Though it is not devoid of loopholes, this bill will form the framework for India’s data protection laws, prescribing how organisations should collect, process, and store citizens’ data. The committee’s report recommends that the law should be applicable to processing of personal data if such data has been used, shared, disclosed, collected or otherwise processed in India. However, it asserts that in respect of processing by fiduciariesthat are not present in India, the law shall apply to those carrying on business in India or other activities such as profiling which could cause privacy harms to data principals in India. Additionally, personal data collected, used, shared, disclosed or otherwise processed by companies incorporated...

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has asked National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) to update them on the details about the digital payment service being tested by global messaging application WhatsApp. Post news flash by the Cambridge Analytica. WhatsApp has around 200 million users in India itself. Now, the government of India is leaving no stone unturned to secure Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp, which is set to launch its payment service in the country this month. Let’s see on how Facebook owned WhatsApp, is addressing this issue to match India’s data protection and privacy laws. Secondly, they have to store the data in Indian soil. Moreover, the government of India will be interested also in knowing what data is shared with the Facebook. Reason being, the official WhatsApp payment blog says, they share a limited number of data to United States where their facility and services are established. The official website states that, “If you...