A committee of experts under the Chairpersonship of Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan was constituted to deliberate on the Non-Personal Data Governance Framework.
It studied the various issues involving non-personal data and to make specific suggestions for consideration of the central government on the regulation of non-personal data.
The Report has attempted to define non-personal data, and proposed several concepts including the concept of community, public and private data, non-personal data authority, data trusts, data businesses, data custodians etc.
It fails to clarify what sort of an institutional structure would be beneficial in regulating non-personal data, ensuring that data principals receive their fair share of benefit from the processing of their data or how misuse can be thwarted.
The framework is replete with abstract concepts and ideas. It lays out a very shaky platform to draft a legislation which aspires to be a model for the world.
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“One of the most notable orders included #KarnatakaHC passing an order that no service/benefit can be denied to anyone by state instrumentalities for not installing @SetuAarogya”. Here’s @AnnoyedSingh, sharing her experience on Defending #DigitalRights in 2020.
The #PIL challenges the voluntary-mandatory imposition of @SetuAarogya and the invasion of privacy rights in the absence of specific legislation governing data collection and processing by it. #ContactTracing#app#aarogyasetu
The Aarogya Setu petition challenging its legality and voluntary-mandatory nature by our advisory board member @anivar is listed for hearing today.
@anivar is represented by Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves, counsels from SFLC.in, Advocate @clifroz, Advocate @avani_chokshi and Advocate Ali Zia Kabir in the matter.
Senior Advocate Colin Gonsalves will be continuing his arguments today. You can read the updates on last hearing here: sflc.in/update-anivar-…
A petition has been filed by Ms. Tanya Mahajan in the Bombay High Court against the de-facto imposition of @SetuAarogya by officials of Passport Seva Kendra, Mumbai.
Tanya is represented by counsels from SFLC.IN and Ms. @saxenaditi, Advocate Bombay High Court.
The matter was listed for hearing today. In today's hearing, the Bench issued a notice asking respondents to file their reply before the next date i.e. 07.01.2020. No representatives on behalf of the Regional Passport Office appeared today.
The petitioner was denied entry by Passport Seva Kendra, Malad for refusing to install Aarogya Setu. The petitioner has contended that the Aarogya Setu app is voluntary in nature per MHA guidelines dated 17.05.2020 and subsequent guidelines.
However, some of the libraries/modules that the code depends on have not been released and very little of the released code is meant to run on the #backend. #coders#aarogyasetu#COVID19#FOSS
We wrote to Chief Minister of Haryana, Shri @mlkhattar , and Principal Secy of Information Technology Department, Shri V. Umashankar against the mandatory imposition of Aadhaar in Parivar Pehchaan Patra and de-facto imposition of Parivar Pehchaan Patra.
The Government of Haryana has made #Aadhaar mandatory for Parivar Pehchaan Patra. This step by the Government of Haryana is in violation of the judgment of the Supreme Court in Justice Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2019 (1) SCC 1). sflc.in/letter-governm…
It thus become more important than ever before to document instances of free speech violations by the state and build a repository from all over the country. #RightSideBroadcasting#FakeNews#HumanRights
The #tracker entails publicly available data collected by volunteers with SFLC.in via various sources including news sources, court orders etc. as well as by crowd-sourcing information from the public at large and verifying it. sflc.in/free-speech-tr… #volunteer
The aim of this project is to ignite conversations & deepen understanding around the status of #FreeSpeech in India. Right to freedom of speech and expression is the spine of a #Democratic nation. A tracker like this is a mirror which shows us how deep the water is. #Constitution