Privacy laws are not your everyday compliances While regulatory compliance always has the pain and complexities that businesses face, the case is different in the case of privacy laws They are aggressive, they are evolving very fast At any given time, as an average business, you are looking to comply with multiple sets of regulations which […]
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Introduction The Singapore PDPA has come to effect on July 2, 2014. It collects, uses, and discloses personal data from Singapore. It applies to each organization that is located in any place in the world that handles personal data from users located inside the territory of Singapore. It empowers users in Singapore with the right to give and revoke consent to the processing of their data. The right to access personal data which is collected and to correct inaccurate personal data. It also defines consent […]
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Data Privacy aspects of Online gaming The fever of online gaming has taken over people of all ages. The shift from offices to work from home has played a huge role in this shift. These games appeal to all ages. And with these coming to the forefront the privacy concerns have also risen. There is […]
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The southern region of Asia includes India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Maldives. The association between these nations is the South Asian Area of Regional Co-operation (SAARC). The growth of data protection laws in these countries has been significant since 2013. Even though the laws in these countries are based on […]
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Introduction The right to privacy and government surveillance for security are contradictory. The seed of right to privacy as a constitutional right vis a vis surveillance by the government was planted by the minority judgement given by Justice Subba Rao in the Kharak Singh case, wherein it was stated that privacy was within the purview of Article 21 […]
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Privacy is not at all a new concept and goes way back, the first recognised instance is the semayne case in 1604 which stated That the house of everyone is to him as his castle and fortress. Then it was in the year 1890 when Justice Louis Brandeis and a Boston based Attorney Mr. Samuel […]
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Congressional watchdog report counts breaches of Social Security numbers and health records at schools How vulnerable is student data at U.S. public schools? That’s a critical question now that many, if not most, of the nation’s 51 million students are learning online at least some of the time. Congressional watchdogs recently attempted to get a handle on […]
Continue ReadingWhile 2020 was the year of change and digital adoption at an unprecedented scale, 2021 starts as a year of hope and progress. In this year with all other resolutions, let’s make a new one. Claim back the privilege that we used to have, the privilege of personal privacy. Now, some of you might be […]
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