This is a rundown of last week\u2019s news updates on Privacy:<\/p>\n
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team has recently issued new guidelines trying to combat cyber security incidents, with 6,07,220 incidents being reported in the first half of 2021. The directions prescribe mandatory data collection, retention and integration by data centers, virtual private network providers, cloud services providers and others. However, directions for the registration of data centres, virtual private server providers, and virtual private network providers and retention of metadata by them has raised privacy concerns, primarily that the purpose of such services would be defeated by the collection and storage of data by them. Additionally, the industry has voiced concerns over the reporting requirements, stating that it hampers the ease of doing business.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology\u2019s move to release a revised draft comes after its precursor, the Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy, which permitted the licensing and sale of public data by the Government to the private sector, faced strong criticism. The Data Governance Framework would enable the government to create a data repository of anonymised non-personal data which would bolster the Digital India initiative, and also support research and startup ecosystems in India. The Framework also has a provision for private entities to volunteer their datasets to be added to the data repository. The Framework also calls for the creation of an Indian Data Management Office to oversee the implementation and review of the NDGFP.<\/p>\n
Twitter, the global social media giant, has reached a settlement with the US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission to pay USD 150 million for failing to secure the privacy of its users\u2019 data, along with having to implement new protections. This comes as a result of a lapses in Twitter\u2019s security measures which permitted hackers to access non-public user data, culminating in the FTC\u2019s claim that Twitter had breached its 2011 ruling by misleading users about how well protected their non-public contact information was. The suit also alleged that Twitter had failed to comply with US accords with the EU and Switzerland, which prevented corporations from processing user data for purposes not expressly permitted by users.<\/p>\n
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Authored by Rohan Jacob (Associate).<\/p>\n
The post reviews significant privacy developments in May 2022, including new CERT-In guidelines, the revised national data governance policy, and Twitter\u2019s privacy settlement. It presents an analytical overview of regulatory and legal changes affecting data privacy in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,95],"tags":[4850,11597,11595,325,9117,4021,11375,11596],"class_list":["post-88713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property","category-privacy-data-protection","tag-cert-in","tag-cyber-security-india","tag-data-governance","tag-data-protection","tag-india-privacy-law","tag-meity","tag-privacy-updates","tag-twitter-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88713"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142805,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88713\/revisions\/142805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bananaip.com\/intellepedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}