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Importance of Data Privacy in Mergers and AcquisitionsIntroduction With data playing a pivotal role in business operations, ensuring data privacy compliance has become a key focus in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Understanding a target company’s data privacy practices is essential for legal compliance and assessing potential risks and costs. This blog post aims to guide you through the essential data...0 Comments 0 Shares 13 Views 0 ReviewsPlease log in to like, share and comment!
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Importance of Data Privacy in Mergers and AcquisitionsIntroduction With data playing a pivotal role in business operations, ensuring data privacy compliance has become a key focus in mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Understanding a target company’s data privacy practices is essential for legal compliance and assessing potential risks and costs. This blog post aims to guide you through the essential data...0 Comments 0 Shares 11 Views 0 Reviews
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Conducting DPIAs for AI Systems: Navigating Ethics and Data PrivacyIntroduction As AI systems become more integrated into industries like healthcare, finance, and tech, ensuring their ethical and transparent use is critical. Conducting Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for these systems helps identify potential risks to user privacy and ensures compliance with laws like the GDPR. However, assessing AI comes with challenges, such as...0 Comments 0 Shares 72 Views 0 Reviews
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Even the Walls Have Ears: How Active Listening Breaches Your PrivacyIntroduction “My wife asked me why I was speaking so softly at home. I told her I was afraid Mark Zuckerberg was listening! She laughed. I laughed. Alexa laughed. Siri Laughed.” Most of us have heard this joke tweeted by an X user in 2019. Everybody laughed it off as a harmless dig at the increasingly invasive nature of everyday tech. Fast-forward to 2024 and this...0 Comments 0 Shares 142 Views 0 Reviews
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To Forget or Not to Forget? Supreme Court to Rule on the Right to be ForgottenIntroduction In 2014, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in the case of Google Spain SL, Google Inc. v. Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, Mario Costeja González, C-131/12 (Costeja case), ruled that “Right to be Forgotten” is a human right. The Right to be Forgotten appears in Recitals 65 and 66 and in...0 Comments 0 Shares 243 Views 0 Reviews
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Travel Agencies and DPDPA: Ensuring Traveller Data SecurityIntroduction India’s tourism sector contributed 230 billion USD to the country’s economy in 2023, and the graph only goes upwards. The internet has made every corner of the world accessible, and travellers often place reliance on travel agencies for the entirety of their travel, and in most cases even before the beginning of their travel. Be it booking flights and hotels...0 Comments 0 Shares 281 Views 0 Reviews
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Budgetary Allocation Made for the Data Protection Board of India: Know Your RegulatorThe Union Budget for the FY- 2025 has made a significant allocation for establishing and functioning the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI), underscoring the government’s commitment to ensuring a robust data protection framework. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has been allocated ₹2 crores to cover the establishment and salary expenses of the DPBI for...0 Comments 0 Shares 407 Views 0 Reviews
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DPDPA’S IMPACT ON INSURANCE DATA PROTECTIONINTRODUCTION The industry of insurance services is all about fiddling with risks for which the data of the insured people is vital. Insurance companies practice collecting vast amounts of data from various policy holders which includes medical history, financial records, debt related data and much more. These types of data are critical for underwriting rules and help in designing various...0 Comments 0 Shares 449 Views 0 Reviews
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THE IMPACT OF DPDPA ON THE ED-TECH INDUSTRYINTRODUCTION: The enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, marks a significant milestone in the realm of data privacy and protection in India. This Act affects all sectors including ed-tech industry which has witnessed rapid growth in the country over the last few years. The India ed-tech market size was valued at $5.13 billion in 2023. The Indian ed-tech...0 Comments 0 Shares 474 Views 0 Reviews
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NAVIGATING INDIA’S DPDP ACT 2023: PRIVACY CONSIDERATIONS FOR MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRYINTRODUCTION: The enactment of data protection legislation across various jurisdictions have necessitated strict mandates to protect people’s personal information. India is planning to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA 2023), which is a big step and will require businesses to review their data protection procedures. The DPDP Act aims to...0 Comments 0 Shares 454 Views 0 Reviews
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