New draft rules to tackle fake online reviews; IT ministry junks draft data anonymisation guidelinesA senior official in the Department of Consumer Affairs tells us the centre has finalised draft guidelines on countering the spread of fake...
09 Sep, 2022, 07.38 AM IST
MeitY pulls down draft data anonymisation guidelinesThe guidelines were put up for feedback by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on August 30.
08 Sep, 2022, 08.20 PM IST
PEs join late-stage rounds; forex betting apps lure unsuspecting investorsWith large fund houses now nursing bruises to their public tech portfolios in the US, private equity and sovereign wealth funds have sensed...
05 Sep, 2022, 02.02 PM IST
MeitY invites public comments on draft data anonymisation guidelinesThe draft, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, shows that the primary goal of the Working Group is to frame guidelin...
02 Sep, 2022, 08.29 AM IST
Government proposes to set up India Data Management OfficeThe IDMO will also frame data, dataset and metadata rules in consultation with the respective ministries and state governments, according t...
28 May, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Data access policy objective is not commercialization: ChandrasekharUnion Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar was responding to a question in the Lok Sabha by Congress MP Manish Tew...
07 Apr, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Government's open data push sets off alarmsThe Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) released a draft of the India Data Accessibility and Use Policy 2022 for pub...
29 Mar, 2022, 06.11 AM IST
TN sets up permission matrix in data policy as national rulebook gets draftedWhile not a law passed in the Assembly, the data policy lays down guidelines for researchers and policy consultants, companies and the publ...
18 Mar, 2022, 12.21 PM IST
Experts flag lack of laws on govt use of citizen dataThey pointed out that the current Information Technology Act, 2000 governs usage of personal data by private corporations but there is no p...
23 Feb, 2022, 06.01 AM IST
Panel proposes new regulator for non-personal data: Draft report"There is a need to create a regulator or authority for data business, which provides centralized regulation for all non-personal data exch...
10 Jul, 2020, 02.24 PM IST
Govt exemptions in Personal Data Protection law can be challenged in court, says Justice SrikrishnaJustice Srikrishna had told ET in December that the new proposed government exemptions could turn India into an Orwellian state. On Thursda...
31 Jan, 2020, 07.37 AM IST
Non-personal data panel eyes public consultationThe Ministry of Electronics and IT set up the committee in September to come up with the draft, which would also govern community data, ano...
24 Oct, 2019, 07.30 AM IST
MeitY whitepaper to seek opinion on non-personal dataThe government may also consider leaving it to the ministries or regulators to define which kind of data should come under the purview of s...
03 Sep, 2019, 07.25 AM IST
MeitY may not include E-commerce data in privacy billMeitY may reject DPIIT proposal to include ecommerce data in the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill.
29 Aug, 2019, 10.10 PM IST
Study finds personal data protection draft ambiguousFollowing the Supreme Court’s recognition of the right to privacy’ as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India in August 2017, t...
25 Aug, 2018, 06.58 AM IST
Draft eHealth standards a 'regulatory overreach', say startups and industry bodiesThe contention is primarily on the fact that the Justice Srikrishna Commission, which is already considering a data privacy regulatory fram...
27 Apr, 2018, 12.28 PM IST
Tech giants get ready to reply to TRAI, worry over losing control on dataTrai has sought responses on required data protection regulations, user consent, data ownership, rights and responsibilities of data contro...
11 Oct, 2017, 01.27 PM IST