Draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018

WhatsApp global head Will Cathcart is currently in India to meet govt officials

Govt. has asked NPCI to look into the WhatsApp data storage practices

WhatsApp privacy policy states that it shares user information with Facebook and other service providers

Plan involves setting up data governance centres to safely store data

Certain community data will help government foster and handhold Indian startups

The centre will be set up under the Ministry of IT and Electronics

Justdial’s user data has been stored in an unsecured manner since 2015

Independent security researcher Rajshekhar Rajaharia discovered the loophole

Justdial says the issues is now fixed, but Rajaharia disputes this claim in latest response

Mukesh Ambani said Indian data must be owned by Indians

Data should not be held by global corporations, said Ambani

India now needs a new movement against data colonisation, he said

'The Dialogue’ discussed the PDP Bill in detail, including changes startups will have to make in data collection and processing practices

It also discussed how the Bill's data localisation mandate will affect startups’ cost efficacy and operations

It discussed how startups can keep costs in check while meeting the mandate of taking users' consent and classifying their personal data

Inundating users with multiple lengthy notices to gain their consent at each instance of the collection will likely lead to consent fatigue

Providing notices for devices that lack interactive user interfaces or display screens will prove to be a challenge

IoT developers in India will need to coordinate with the Data Protection Authority to develop practical guidelines to work around these issues