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The Dialogue – NASSCOM Policy Brief Series on Data Protection Bill 2021

In the first policy brief as part of the series, we focus on the provisions of inter-sectoral regulation and coordination in the Data Protection Bill 2021. Since technology cuts across multiple sectors, privacy and data protection are both vertical (across sectors) and horizontal (across the size of the business) in nature. This will cause challenges […]

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IT Rules, 2021: A Regulatory Impact Assessment Study | Volume 1

The Dialogue and IAMAI launched our impact assessment study on Part II of the IT Rules, 2021: A Regulatory Impact Assessment Study on July 4, 2022. Given the rise in online harms, the MeitY introduced the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines & Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, in February 2021. While many provisions addressed some

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RBI’s CoF and Tokenisation Guidelines: Assessing the Preparedness of the Payments Ecosystem

The Reserve Bank of India mandated the deletion of card-on-file data by merchants and PA/PGs. Industry bodies and civil society organisations gave inputs seeking an extension of this deadline in December last year, including The Dialogue and Deepstrat, which published a paper outlining the challenges associated with rushed compliance. The RBI, taking cognisance, gave a

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India’s Digital Health Dreams : Getting it Right

The Dialogue concluded a research programme that evaluates GovTech systems within the country, understands how they work and recommends actionable interventions for enhancing design and service delivery. We looked at these systems to see how privacy safeguards, governance mechanisms, security standards, accessibility and inclusivity are embedded in the system- with the end goal of facilitating

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Feasibility of Open Access & Single Subscription on Policy under STIP 2020

The Dialogue, in collaboration with DeepStrat, is conducting a series of studies on the proposed National Science, Technology & Innovation Policy 2020. The objective of this white paper is to analyse these provisions in light of their impact on India’s research ecosystem & propose evidence-based recommendations in consonance with the international standards to ensure seamless

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Building Effective and Harmonised Data Protection Authority: Strategies for Structural Design and Implementation

Currently, in India, regulations pertaining to technology are being made in a disjointed manner under different routes, such as legislation, subordinate rules by the executive, and delegated regulation through sectoral regulators and ministries. This multiplicity in regulations and rules without synergy would cause various problems at the receiving end, like confusion, repetition, over-regulation, compliance burden

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Our Response to InDEA 2.0

InDEA 2.0 tries to lay out a framework that enables Governments and private sector enterprises to design IT architectures to deliver holistic and integrated services to customers. But in our response, we flagged some of the privacy, surveillance, discrimination, exclusion, regulatory, competition and data protection concerns with the proposed framework. The InDEA 2.0 proposes interlinking

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