The Dialogue organized a stakeholder consultation on The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 in partnership with Priti Suri Associates on March 7th, 2020. The event was held at The Raintree Hotel, St. Mary’s Road Chennai. The discussion at the event was aimed at analysing the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 and voicing the various implementational or fundamental concerns that various stakeholders believe exist within the new framework. The aim of the event was to find ways for the Government and stakeholders to understand each other’s concerns and find a balance between economic growth, individual’s privacy and national security while drafting this new law.
The discussion was moderated by Mr. Kazim Rizvi, founder of the Delhi tech-policy focused thinktank, The Dialogue and Ms. Priti Suri, Managing Partner at Delhi based law firm, PSA Legal.
Amongst the people who attended, there were members of the tech policy space from different organizations such as PayPal, Renault Nissan Automotive India Pvt. Ltd, Zoho Corp, SIAM computing, Virtusa Software Services Pvt. Ltd, Sify Technologies, Isuzu, Ashok Leyland, Cognizant Technologies, The Hindu, Deloitte, IAPP, Grant Thorton, Intellect Design Arena Ltd, SIAM computing, Detect Technologies, W Square Incubation Centre and Carnegie India. The event had an attendance of 26 individuals.
