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Latest Updates on Privacy - November, 2021 - Part I

Latest Updates on Privacy – November, 2021 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Supreme Court sets up a committee to look into the Pegasus matter The Apex Court has ordered for the establishment of an independent three-member expert committee to investigate claims of pervasive and targeted monitoring of politicians, journalists, and activists through the Pegasus spyware. The committee will be overseen by retired Supreme Court judge Justice RV Raveendran. The committee will look into whether the Pegasus spyware was used to access stored…

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Latest Updates on Privacy - October, 2021 - Part I

Latest Updates on Privacy – October, 2021 – Part I

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Forced DNA tests a violation of Right to Privacy, holds Supreme Court of India The Supreme Court of India has held that DNA Testing should be carried out only in deserving and exceptional circumstances and not ordered on a routine basis. The Court stated that subjecting or forcing an unwilling person to undergo a DNA test without his or her consent will in turn amount to a violation of the…

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Latest Updates in Privacy - September, 2021 - Part III

Latest Updates on Privacy – September, 2021 – Part III

This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy: Joint Parliamentary Committee on data protection bill to comb through over 100 drafting changes The Joint Parliamentary Committee tasked with ironing out a number of issues with the personal data protection bill will now look at over a 100 legislative drafting and cosmetic changes to be made to the bill, with one of them being the change of name from the personal data protection bill to the data protection bill.…

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Latest Updates on Privacy and Antitrust - 1st August to 8th August, 2021

Latest Updates on Privacy and Antitrust – 1st August to 8th August, 2021

This is a rundown of last week's news updates on Privacy and Antitrust: ZOOM to ‘breakout’ the bank, decides to settle US privacy class action for $85 million Zoom, a leading virtual conferencing app, has decided to end a privacy infringement class action suit filed against it by users who alleged that Zoom’s sharing of users’ personal data with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn resulted in violation of their privacy. While maintaining that they had committed no wrongdoing in the alleged action,…

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THE CONSENSUAL IS NO LONGER CRIMINAL

We’re fundamentally an Intellectual Property resource. However, we believe the verdict in question here, striking down Section 377, is a historic moment in our vast legal landscape, and thus worthy of mention. Further, this verdict has implications on privacy laws, and hopefully on a societal outlook that will spur changes in a multitude of other areas of law, many of which are yet to be analyzed in this specific respect. On September 6th, 2018, the Supreme Court of India struck down…

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