Round Table Discussion | Building an Indian Data Protection Framework: Next Steps

SFLC.IN is the first Indian legal services organization that works exclusively on technology, law, and policy. As a not-for-profit organization engaged in the empowerment of Indian citizens about their digital freedom and rights, it operates as a collective bringing together different stakeholders to a common platform to further the cause of digital rights. SFLC.in promotes innovation and open access to knowledge by helping policy makers make informed and just decisions regarding the use and adoption of technology. As of 2019SFLC.in is the only Indian organization to be inducted as a member of the IFEX, a global network to defend the right to freedom of expression and information.

Software Freedom Law Center, India

<P>This discussion is being organized in light of recent developments in India's privacy and data protection landscape. The following three on-going processes are expected to play highly determinative roles in shaping our regulatory landscape:</P>
<P>1. The Supreme Court of India is currently hearing final arguments on a batch of 29 petitions led by <I>K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India</I> that have challenged various aspects of the Aadhaar scheme.</P>
<P>2. A Committee of Experts set up by the Government of India is in the process of drafting a comprehensive Data Protection Bill. Extensive public consultations involving public comments on a white paper and four open house discussions have already been conducted by the Committee.</P>
<P>3. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India is working on making its own recommendations on data protection with emphasis on the telecom sector, but also covering data protection generally.</P>
<P>Against this backdrop, this round table will host a discussion on the road ahead for privacy and data protection in India. Various experts in the field from across the multi-stakeholder community will take stock of the judicial and regulatory processes described above, discuss how they might interact in building an Indian data protection law and what such a law might look like, and go over ways to meaningfully influence these processes in the interest of building a truly robust data protection framework. </P>
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<H2>Organising Partners</H2>
<H3>Software Freedom Law Center, India</H3>
<P>SFLC.IN is a donor supported legal services organisation that brings together lawyers, policy analysts, technologists, and students to protect freedom in the digital world. SFLC.IN promotes innovation and open access to knowledge by helping developers make great Free and Open Source Software, protect privacy and civil liberties for citizens in the digital world by educating and providing free legal advice and help policy makers make informed and just decisions with the use and adoption of technology.</P>
<P>SFLC.IN is a society registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860, operating all over India.</P>
<H3>Ananta Aspen Centre</H3>
<P>Ananta Aspen Centre is an independent and not-for-profit organization that focuses on leadership development and open dialogue on important issues facing Indian society, to help foster its transformation. The Centre engages civil society, business, governments and other stakeholders on issues of importance to India's development and national security. The Centre, registered under 12A and 80G of the Income Tax Act, is headquartered in New Delhi with an office in Kolkata.</P>
<H3>MouthShut.com</H3>
<P>MouthShut.com is who-what-when-where-why of the consumer world. This is the best place to speak your mind and read what others have to say about everything available out there. We help you shop wise.</P>
<H3><STRONG>Indian Institute of Technology Bombay</STRONG></H3>
<P><SPAN>The institute is recognised worldwide as a leader in the field of engineering education and research. Reputed for the outstanding calibre of students graduating from its undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, the institute attracts the best students from the country for its bachelor's, master's and doctoral programmes. Research and academic programmes at IIT Bombay are driven by an outstanding faculty, many of whom are reputed for their research contributions internationally.</SPAN></P>
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