Data protection: Can India overcome the spy-security state and big tech to enact a strong law?

Data protection: Can India overcome the spy-security state and big tech to enact a strong law?: The government has set up a committee headed by Justice BN Srikrishna, a former judge of the Supreme Court, to “identify key data protection issues” and “recommend methods of addressing them”. This is not the Indian state’s first foray into the arena of data protection. In 2010, the Department of Personnel and Training had released a discussion paper and in 2012, there was the Report of the Group of Experts on Privacy Law, formed by the now disbanded Planning Commission. Read More