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Data Protection and Privacy in India: The (Fundamental) Right Way
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