{"id":198359,"date":"2022-08-02T17:59:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=198359"},"modified":"2022-08-02T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T12:31:51","slug":"wheres-that-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wheres-that-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Where\u2019s that law?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cWhere\u2019s That Law?\u201d <\/strong>Published in The Times of India<\/b>\u00a0on 2nd<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: <\/strong>GS 2 Important Provisions of the Constitution of India; Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Fundamental Right to Privacy<\/p>\n

News:<\/strong> In May, The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) issued an advisory warning against sharing Aadhaar numbers with unauthorized entities.<\/p>\n

What are the issues related to privacy in India?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Five years ago, the SC ruled the right to privacy<\/strong> as a fundamental right.<\/strong> However, there is a statutory vacuum<\/strong> in the laws related to privacy. India doesn\u2019t have a data protection law.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, the Sri Krishna committee<\/strong> was constituted to make recommendations on the data protection law. Consequently, the GOI introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill<\/strong> 2019. But the government didn\u2019t conform to these recommendations and gave the government, sweeping exemptions from privacy norms. The government was endowed with powers to overrule the proposed Data Protection Authority<\/strong>, reducing it largely to an appendage rather than an independent regulator.<\/p>\n

Civil society was worried about these exemptions, as these give space to the government to undermine privacy.<\/p>\n

The joint committee<\/strong> of Parliament <\/strong>examining the Bill noted that it is difficult to distinguish between personal<\/strong> and non-personal data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

There are incidents of theft of data from public and private agencies collecting biometric information like fingerprints. For example,<\/strong> people have lost money from bank accounts due to Aadhar.<\/p>\n

There are also threats like the Pegasus malware<\/strong> that infects mobile phones.<\/p>\n

There is opacity in the data collection operations <\/strong>of tech companies.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

With the era of 5G and ever-greater sharing of data<\/strong> between smart devices, and coming big jumps in computing power, there is a dire need for the data protection law<\/strong> in India.<\/p>\n

Such a law is urgently needed to clarify the ownership, storage,<\/strong> and processing of personal data <\/strong>collected by public and private entities.<\/p>\n

The law will codify the responsibilities and liabilities of these entities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhere\u2019s That Law?\u201d Published in The Times of India\u00a0on 2nd August 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 Important Provisions of the Constitution of India; Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. Relevance: Fundamental Right to Privacy News: In… Continue reading Where\u2019s that law?\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-198359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704923904},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}