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RBI Consultation Paper on P2P Lending: Data Security and Privacy Concerns: by Vipul Kharbanda — published May 31, 2016 — last modified Jun 01, 2016 11:41 AM — filed under: Privacy, Reserve Bank of India, Data Protection, Research, Network Economies, P2P Lending, Researchers at Work
On April 28, 2016 the Reserve Bank of India published a consultation paper on P2P Lending and invited comments from the public on the same. The Paper discusses what P2P lending is, the various regulatory practices that govern P2P lending in different jurisdictions and lists our arguments for and against regulating P2P lending platforms.
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RBI Directions on Account Aggregators: by Vipul Kharbanda and Elonnai Hickok — published Oct 21, 2016 — last modified Oct 21, 2016 03:25 PM — filed under: Banking, Featured, Internet Governance, Privacy
The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) Directions for account aggregator services in India seem to lay great emphasis on data security by allowing only direct access between institutions and do away with data scraping techniques.
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Re-thinking Key Escrow: by Natasha Vaz — published Aug 09, 2011 — last modified Aug 22, 2011 11:44 AM — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
Would you make duplicates of your house keys and hand them over to the local police authority? And if so, would you feel safe? Naturally, one would protest this invasion of privacy. Similarly, would it be justified for the government to have a copy of the private key to intercept and decrypt communications? This is the idea behind key escrow; it enables government ‘wiretapping’.
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Re: The Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012: by Bhairav Acharya — published Oct 09, 2013 — last modified Oct 29, 2013 10:00 AM — filed under: DNA Profiling, Internet Governance, Privacy
This short note speaks to legal issues arising from the proposed Human DNA Profiling Bill, 2012 ("DBT Bill") that was circulated drafted under the aegis of the Department of Biotechnology of the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India, which seeks to collect human DNA samples, profile them and store them. These comments are made clause-by-clause against the DBT Bill.
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Reading the Fine Script: Service Providers, Terms and Conditions and Consumer Rights: by Jyoti Panday — published Jul 02, 2014 — last modified Jul 04, 2014 06:31 AM — filed under: Social Media, Consumer Rights, Google, internet and society, Privacy, Transparency and Accountability, Intermediary Liability, Accountability, Facebook, Data Protection, Policies, Safety
This year, an increasing number of incidents, related to consumer rights and service providers, have come to light. This blog illustrates the facts of the cases, and discusses the main issues at stake, namely, the role and responsibilities of providers of platforms for user-created content with regard to consumer rights.
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Registering for Aadhaar in 2019: by Sunil Abraham — published Jan 03, 2019 — last modified Jan 03, 2019 02:59 PM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
It is a lot less scary registering for Aadhaar in 2019 than it was in 2010, given how the authentication modalities have since evolved.
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Regulation, misuse concerns still dog DNA profiling bill: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 29, 2015 — last modified Sep 13, 2015 08:32 AM — filed under: DNA Profiling, Internet Governance, Privacy
Experts fear such data could be used for non-forensic purposes and are concerned about the vast powers to be vested in proposed DNA profiling board.
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Relationship Between Privacy and Confidentiality: by Vipul Kharbanda — published Dec 30, 2014 — filed under: Internet Governance, Privacy
The laws of breach of confidentiality and breach of privacy at first glance seem very similar to each other. If a doctor releases health information relating to a patient that s/he is treating then such an act would give rise to a claim both under the law of privacy as well as under the law of confidentiality.
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Reliance Jio data leaked on website : report: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 10, 2017 — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Reliance Jio customer data was leaked on independent website magicapk.com, including details such as names, mobile numbers and email IDs , said a report.
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Reply to RTI Application under RTI Act of 2005 from Vanya Rakesh: by Vanya Rakesh — published Jan 03, 2016 — last modified Jan 13, 2016 02:40 AM — filed under: Aadhaar, Internet Governance, Privacy
Unique Identification Authority of India replied to the RTI application filed by Vanya Rakesh.
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