Internet Governance Blog
A Compilation of Research on the PDP Bill
- March 04, 2020
The most recent step in India’s initiative to create an effective and comprehensive Data Protection regime was the call for comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, which closed last month. Leading up to the comments, CIS has published numerous research pieces with the goal of providing a comprehensive overview of how this legislation would place India within the global scheme, and how the local situation has developed, as well as analysing its impacts on citizens’ rights.
Read more →Divergence between the General Data Protection Regulation and the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
- February 21, 2020
Content takedown and users' rights
- February 14, 2020
After Shreya Singhal v Union of India, commentators have continued to question the constitutionality of the content takedown regime under Section 69A of the IT Act (and the Blocking Rules issued under it). There has also been considerable debate around how the judgement has changed this regime: specifically about (i) whether originators of content are entitled to a hearing, (ii) whether Rule 16 of the Blocking Rules, which mandates confidentiality of content takedown requests received by intermediaries from the Government, continues to be operative, and (iii) the effect of Rule 16 on the rights of the originator and the public to challenge executive action. In this opinion piece, we attempt to answer some of these questions.
Read more →Comments to the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019
- February 12, 2020
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.
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