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Data Protection in India- Part II

We live in a complex web of social relationships, which are influenced by several factors that are alien to any other country. The extent to which one wishes to be left alone depends on the nature of relationships in the web, which are sometimes more divergent than one can imagine. The privacy world of an individual in her relational web is multi-dimensional, dynamic and contextual, and suffers from predictability ambiguities. The challenge of defining the nature, scope, and extent of…

December 27, 2017 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection, Social Media Law, Trade Secrets 0Comment 561Views 0Like

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Data protection in India-Part I

The Committee of Experts on Data Protection Framework for India headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna released a white paper on data protection framework for India which was made available on the website of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. This paper may be accessed here. The Committee was set up by the Central Government to study and understand various issues relating to data protection in India, make specific suggestions on principles underlying a data protection bill and to draft…

December 13, 2017 BananaIP Reporter Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 557Views 0Like

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Privacy and Intellectual Property: Are we trying to kill the snake with a log?

The Right to Privacy is now unquestionably a constitutionally protected fundamental right. The Supreme Court's order puts it as follows: " ... 2 The reference is disposed of in the following terms: (i) The decision in M P Sharma which holds that the right to privacy is not protected by the Constitution stands over-ruled; (ii) The decision in Kharak Singh to the extent that it holds that the right to privacy is not protected by the Constitution stands over-ruled; (iii) The right to privacy…

August 31, 2017 Dr. Kalyan C. Kankanala Intellectual Property, Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 2528Views 0Like

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Privacy: The LinkedIn Security Breach

LinkedIn, a business oriented social networking site which was founded in the year 2002, has recently found its way in the headlines for the latest data breach committed by hackers on May17, 2016. This wasn’t the first time it had faced such a breach. On 5th June, 2012, a group of hackers managed to get hack 6.5 million user accounts and by the morning of June 6, passwords of such accounts were available online in plain text. This was followed…

May 30, 2016 BananaIP Reporter Privacy / Data Protection 0Comment 586Views 0Like

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Ideas, Concepts, Scripts & Stories – Protecting Ideas in the Entertainment Industry Part II

This post was first published on June 25th, 2014. We reviewed the existing scenario in the entertainment industry with respect to the protection of ideas, in my previous post - how to protect ideas. Before we move on to discuss the tool that can be used to protect original ideas/concepts that are not expressed in a tangible form, let us take a look at the practices followed in the entertainment industry by both the generator and the receiver of ideas.…