Data Protection Framework

The Justice BN Srikrishna Committee, set up by the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology on July 31, 2017, tasked with writing a draft data protection law, published a white paper on data protection framework in India, asking for stakeholders’ feedback by December 31, 2017.

Seven Key Principles

Here are the seven key principles proposed in the white paper on data protection:

1. Technology agnostic: The data protection law must take into account the continuous change in technology and standards of compliance.
2. Holistic application: The law must cover both the private sector and the government sector. The committee of experts, however, also talks ....