Privacy

What is Digital India Bill?

March 9, 2023

The Digital India Bill is the proposed successor to the Information Technology Act, of 2000, which currently regulates entities on the internet in India. The government will hold a public consultation on March 9 to present the basic guiding principles ..

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What are voice deepfakes?

February 6, 2023

Deepfakes is the process of mimicking the voice of a person. Talking in their tone and style; like a mimicry. However, here the mimicry is done using the software. Therefore, the deep fake is the process of mimicking a person’s ..

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National Data Governance Policy

February 1, 2023

Data governance is managing data usage, data security, data availability, and data integrity. During the Union Budget 2023 presentation, the finance minister Smt Nirmala Sitaraman announced that GoI is to launch National Governance Policy. The policy will create an Indian ..

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Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

November 22, 2022

The Central Government released the new Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. It is expected to be introduced in the Indian Parliament in 2023 during the budget session. Background The first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 ..

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UIDAI on Using Aadhar data in crime investigations

May 11, 2022

Recently, the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has told the Delhi High Court that fingerprints found at a crime scene cannot be matched against the Aadhaar database to identify criminals. Why did UIDAI object to using fingerprints for identifying ..

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Directions to VPN providers to collect customer data

May 9, 2022

Recently, the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) issued a new directive to Virtual private network (VPN) service providers. What is the directive about? The CERT-In directive mandates that Virtual private network (VPN) service providers must maintain all customer data ..

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