Centre for Internet & Society

Amber Sinha attended a roundtable conference on data protection and privacy on October 30, 2017 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The close-door event was organised by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.

Participants at the conference discussed:

  • Role of consent in data protection, how it should be configured in India
  • Conflicts between the data minimization principle and big data
  • Governance approaches to data protection
  • Propertarian view of data
  • Need for capacity building in India and institutions who should be involved in the data protection regime, and
  • Cross border data flows and data localisation