LIVE 🔴| Day 1 of PrivacyNama 2022, MediaNama’s flagship conference on privacy and data governance, is going live soon.

You can catch a live-stream of the discussion on the following link: #PrivacyNama2022 #PrivacyNama2022 Day 1
1:30-2:30 PM: Opening Keynote by Prof. Usha Ramanathan
2:30-3:30 PM: Geopolitics, Data Segmentation and Cross Border Data Flows
3:45-5:00 PM: Privacy, Children and Access to Services
5:00-6:00 PM: Consumer Expectations of Privacy in Commerce and Advertising

LIVE 🔴 | How do we address data monopolies? Should they be mandated to share non-personal data publicly? Our third session is on Competition, Antitrust and Non-Personal Data #NonPersonalData Session Chair: @sarveshmathi; Speakers: @KapoorAstha from Aapti Institute, #rahulsingh from @KhaitanCo, @shrutiajimurali from Indian Competition Watch and #viswanathpingali from @IIMAhmedabad. #NonPersonalData

LIVE 🔴 | Our second session is on Privacy and Non-Personal Data is starting now. #NonPersonalData Session Chair: @SmritiParsheera (Fellow, CyberBRICS ; Speakers: @amlanjo from @Google, @amol_kulkarni1 from CUTS International, @iam_anandv from @Hasgeek and #digvijaychaudhary from @cis_india. #NonPersonalData

LIVE 🔴 | Our first panel is on Startups and Non-Personal Data where we’ll aim to understand the experience of sharing NPD, the risks involved in doing so and whether startups can benefit from greater access to NPD. Session Chair: Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin, Founder and Editor, @medianama; Speakers: Anal Ghosh from @googlemaps, Karthik Raghupathy from @PhonePe_, @sijokuruvilla from @adif_India and @zainabbawa from @Hasgeek. #NonPersonalData

LIVE 🔴 | An exclusive interview with MP Amar Patnaik, Member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, is now being screened at MediaNama’s Regulating Non-Personal Data. #NonPersonalData The main reason for clubbing non-personal data with PDP Bill is the fact that it is difficult to distinguish between personal and NPD in tight packets all through the process of collection of data. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

🚨 MediaNama’s conference on Regulating Non-Personal Data is going live soon #NonPersonalData: We will begin with an interview with @amar4odisha (Rajya Sabha MP and Member of JPC on PDP Bill), followed by sessions on Obligations of Data Fiduciaries and Cross Border Data Flows. #NonPersonalData

🚨Day 2 of MediaNama’s conference on Decoding India’s Data Protection Bill is going live soon #DataProtectionBill2021 Today we have the following sessions for you: #DataProtectionBill2021

🚨Day 1 of MediaNama’s conference on Decoding India’s Data Protection Bill is going live soon #DataProtectionBill2021 We will begin with an opening keynote by @mpriteshpandey (Lok Sabha MP and Member of JPC on PDP Bill), followed by sessions on Obligations of Data Fiduciaries and Cross Border Data Flows. #DataProtectionBill2021

How E-Commerce Deliveries Evolved In 2020 pscp.tv/w/cvt6XDFXZ0tn… We thought fashion would grow lower. But that wasn’t the case. It just got shifted from a lot of outdoor clothing to indoor clothing. - Amitesh Jha @Flipkart #Ecommercein2020

LIVE | MediaNama is discussing the impact of the Personal Data Protection Bill and the Non-Personal Data Framework on Data and Artificial Intelligence #DataPoliciesandAI

https://twitter.com/medianama/status/1354712024324870146

Current algorithms do push us to the limit of trade-offs. However, ideas such as differential privacy can help up in navigating some of those trade-offs - @RahulAPanicker, @WadhwaniAI #DataPoliciesandAI #NAMA

We are about to start with our discussion on the impact of the Personal Data Protection Bill and the Non-Personal Data Framework on Data and Artificial Intelligence. #DataPoliciesandAI First up, will be opening remarks by @RahulAPanicker from @WadhwaniAI at 2:15 pm IST #DataPoliciesandAI

REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED for our discussion on Data & #AI, that we are hosting tomorrow (Jan 28) - we have a great line up of speakers & a tremendous response for attending these sessions - our agenda & reading list here: medianama.com/2021/01/223-ev…

@cis_india #TechPolicy

1/5 We are looking at the Impact of Data Policies on Artificial Intelligence, in context of upcoming regulations (#PDP Bill, #NPD Framework) and will kick-start our discussion with opening remarks by @RahulAPanicker from @WadhwaniAI at 2:15 pm IST

@cis_india #TechPolicy #AI

2/5

THREAD: The strange situation of India's Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) looking to regulate content on online streaming services like Netflix, Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video, Sony LIV etc. We've been tracking this since early 2018.

Some context from @nixxin:

1/ 1. In an unexpected move (it has been rumoured for over a year), amendments in the allocation of business rules have given MIB jurisdiction over regulation of online streaming services. medianama.com/2020/11/223-ib…

2/

Breaking news: Competition Commission of India has ordered an investigation into dominance by @GoogleIndia , especially looking into @GooglePayIndia .

This follows a major pushback by Indian founders against the 30% "tax" by Google on Indian companies.

A thread by @nixxin
1/ The CCI investigation will look into 4 aspects of dominance by Google:
1. Exclusivity Regarding Mode of Payment for Purchase of Apps and In-App
Purchases (IAPS).
This is a major issue, because the Google Play store is imposing Google's payment gateway on apps, and then
2/

#Thread: The Indian government on Aug 27 released a data management policy for National Digital Health Mission. The policy is a framework for how data with the mission, by hospitals, health companies, startups, etc, will be governed. #DigitalHealth 1/n medianama.com/2020/08/223-na… The government has given only ONE WEEK for the public to respond to and give their inputs on the policy. It’s a blatant deadline and goes against the spirit of consultative policy making. 2/n medianama.com/2020/08/223-na…

We will be live-tweeting the roundtable on Algorithmic Accountability in India, hosted by Divij Joshi
@divijualsuspect. You can also tune into the livestream on our YouTube channel: .@divijualsuspect said today's discussion is on what algorithms imply for our lives and for our democracy.

Mega thread on #AarogyaSetu 👇

1/n The Indian government has made Aarogya Setu contact tracing app mandatory for all employees (public & private) +for people living in Containment Zones. Failure to download it might violate MHA guidelines
medianama.com/2020/05/223-co… + 2/n Even if you aren't in a situation where #AarogyaSetu is mandatory, govt has authorised state govts/local authorities to make guidelines more restrictive. CISF is already mulling making the app mandatory for passengers at airports and metro stations.
medianama.com/2020/04/223-ci…

Long thread (from @nixxin )
Yesterday, I was on a business news channel, ET Now to discuss the Indian govts regulation of social media platforms. The govt held a meeting with platforms to push for takedown of fake news/misinfo. They're particularly unhappy with Twitters delays. One of the panelists, Vinit Goenka, made three suggestions:
1. There needs to be a KYC mechanism for users of social media. Just like banks have
2. Servers need to be kept in India (he makes this demand on every panel) Social media platforms need to pay taxes in India

"What could be critical personal data that would require mandatory localisation? It'd most probably be in relation to national security. But wouldn't the govt already have it?" #NAMA #PDPBill2019 "It's important that we have explicit consent, but there are so many situations where we can't give explicit consent. Like my RFID number plates being read at a traffic jam." #NAMA #PDPBill2019

#PrivacyBill Companies may have to get their privacy-by-design policies certified by the Data Protection Authority. Right to be Forgotten under India's #PrivacyBill? A data principal can appeal Right to be Forgotten orders to an Appellate Tribunal, if he/she is unsatisfied with the Adjudicating Officer's review of the RTBF order. In the 2018 draft bill, the review process ended with the AO.

"How #cryptocurrency regulation has evolved in India?
1. 2013: RBI issued a press release cautioning users. 'They are in the process of studying extant regulatory provisions in India'
2. Feb 2017: RBI issued another press release. 'We're cautioning you again' ... 3. April 2017: Ministry of Finance set up an interdisciplinary committee to study cryptocurrency
(before the ban on cryptocurrencies, the govt also considered a digital currency)
4. July'17: Interdiscplinary admits report, not open for public, not available under RTI because ...