#what is gdpr

[information2-legal]

What is Data Protection Act in India?

Introduction

Data Protection Act in India is a law that provides for the protection of personal data. It was first introduced in 2007, and it has been revised multiple times since then. In this article, we will discuss what the proposed Data Protection Act in India includes and how it compares with GDPR.

Data Protection Act in India

The Data Protection Act, 2018 is the primary legislation governing data protection in India. It sets out the principles that organizations should follow to ensure that their personal information is handled with care and security.

The bill was passed by Parliament on March 27, 2018 and came into force on April 1, 2018.[1] It replaced the previous Personal Data Protection Bill, 2012 which had been in effect since July 1, 2012.[2] This second draft was made public by Home Minister Rajnath Singh after intense lobbying by civil society groups who felt it did not go far enough in protecting people's privacy rights.[3][4][5][6]

First Point of Focus is the Personal Data

Data protection act in India

A. What is personal data?

Data is any information that can be used to identify or contact an individual, such as name, address and email id. Personal information includes names, addresses and contact details of individuals; biometric data such as fingerprints and iris scans; financial information (such as credit card numbers); health records; genetic characteristics/proteins in blood samples etc., etc., which can be used for identification purposes by an individual or group of individuals. Sensitive personal data are those which relate to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions or religious beliefs of an individual; criminal history including mental illness or disability; sexual orientation/identity (e.g., gay/lesbian).

The second point of focus is the ‘Personal Information’

The second point of focus is the ‘Personal Information’. This means any information that specifically identifies an individual, such as his/her name, date of birth and address. It also includes anything else which can be used to identify an individual (e.g., fingerprints or facial features).

The term ‘sensitive personal data’ has been defined in Section 2(1)(b) as follows:

"Sensitive personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person who can be directly or indirectly traced back to him/her by means of such information."

The third point of focus is on the “Sensitive Personal Data”

The third point of focus is on the “Sensitive Personal Data”. This is information about race, religion, caste, tribe, ethnic origin or political opinions. It also includes philosophical beliefs and union membership.

In India there are two types of sensitive personal data - namely genetic data (including DNA), biometric information such as fingerprints or iris scans etc., national identification numbers issued by a central authority such as Aadhaar card issued under Section 7(1) of Aadhaar Act 2016 which has been put in place by Government through its Rule making power under Article 239B(1) in order to establish an identity management system across various government departments and agencies including UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India). Therefore every authority must ensure that they comply with this law while collecting any kind of sensitive personal information from individuals who are involved in the process

The fourth point of focus is on the “Proprietary Data”

The fourth point of focus is on the “Proprietary Data”. This refers to any data that is not publicly available, but which can be used by an individual or organization.

Proprietary data may be personally identifiable information (e.g., name and address), financial information (e.g., credit card number), business process details (e.g., sales data), customer lists or similar types of information that can only be accessed by one party at a time for specific purposes such as marketing campaigns or product development etc

How does the proposed Data Protection Act in India compare with GDPR?

The proposed Data Protection Act in India is similar to GDPR in that it has a broad definition of personal data and sets out a number of principles for protecting the same. However, there are some key differences between these two pieces of legislation:

The proposed Data Protection Act excludes “sensitive data” from its scope (which would include ethnic origin and religious belief). While this may seem like an advantageous feature at first glance, it could actually prove problematic if you need access to sensitive information about your clients or employees. For example, if someone were being treated for cancer and needed their diagnosis recorded on their file as part of their treatment plan—and that information was deemed too important not just for them but also anyone who might come across it later on—your organization would likely be required by law to keep such details private so only those involved with treating them could access them safely.

Information about data protection in India provides some details about its GDPR elements.

Data Protection Act in India

The Information Technology (IT) Act, 2000 defines the term ‘personal information’ as follows:

any information that can be used to identify a person, and which is recorded in any form or medium; or

any information which relates to an individual and is specified by law to be required to be maintained by an agency or body.

Conclusion

It is recommended that you must keep the data protection in mind while using the various internet resources. You need to be careful about what you are sharing on the internet, especially with public social media websites like facebook, twitter and instagram etc . The proposed Data Protection Act should provide a more secure ecosystem for users to use these services without fear of being affected by hackers or criminals.

[ueberdemnebelmeer]

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[transfagholmes]

me sending out all my little requests for extensions. i feel like a little mouse going help somebody help me. why did they all make the deadlines the last day of lectures rather than after lectures are over is it because they hate me personally

[bedlund]

i just got tumblr live without updating the app

[lemonadeandlanguages]

Ok can I just say that websites that only let you opt out of their cookies if you pay them can and should go die right now

[d3arapril]

my new client at work is literally called Mr J Miller i am going insane

[zorrxchicle]

literally what is this

[klavierpanda]

Okay, because I'm curious, can any non-USAmericans post polls either on desktop or the app?

[space-glitter-gay]

I know ads are personalized but it truly is a moment of all time to see myself in an ad for wolt on Tumblr of all places??? I'm wearing clown makeup in that ad...

[hamadisthings]

HELP US STOP CHAT CONTROL!

If you live in the EU, you absolutely need to pay attention to what's to come. What is Chat Control, you may ask? In a (failed) attempt to combat child abuse online the EU made Chat Control, Chat Control will result in getting your private messages and emails to be scanned by artificial intelligence aka AI to search for CSAM pictures or discussion that might have grooming in there. And on top of having your private conversations handed to AI or the police to snoop in, like your family pictures, selfies, or more sensitive pics, like the medical kind, only meant to be seen by your doctors, or the "flirtatious" kind you send to your partner, you either have to ACCEPT to be scanned...or else you will be forbidden from sending pictures, videos, or even links, as said here.

Kids should absolutely be protected online, without question, but the things that Chat Control gets wrong is that this is a blatant violation of privacy, without even considering the fact that AI WILL create tons of false positives, this is not a theory, this is a fact. And for all the false positives that will be detected, all of them will be sent to the police, which will just flood their system with useless junk instead of efficiently putting resources to actual protect kids from predators.

It also does not help that politicians, police officers, soldiers etc will be exempt from Chat Control if it passes. If it's for the sake of protection, shouldn't everyone get the same treatment? Which further prove that Chat Control would NOT keep your data of private life safe. Plus, bad actors will simply stop using messenger apps as soon as they know they're being tracked, using more obscure means, meanwhile innocent people will be punished by using those services On top of this, the EU also plans on reintroducing Data retention called "EU Going Dark". Both Chat Control and EU Going Dark are clear violation of the GDPR, and even if they shouldn't stand a chance in court, its not going to prevent politicians from trying to ram these through as an excuse to mass surveil European citizens, using kids as a shield. Even teenagers sending pictures to each other won't be exempt, which entirely goes against the purpose of protecting kids by retaining their private photos instead. Furthermore, once messaging apps are forced to comply with Chat Control, the president of Signal, a secured messaging app with encryption, have confirmed that they will be forced to leave the EU if this is enforced against them.

If Chat Control also ends up targeting any websites with the option of private messages, you better expect Europe to be geo-blocked by any websites offering such function. I would also like to add that EU citizens were very vocal in the fight against KOSA, an equally bad internet bill from the US-- and it showed! Which is why we heavily need the help of our fellow US peers to fight against Chat Control too, so please, because we all know if it passes, the US government will take a look at this and conclude "Ooh, a way to force mass surveillance on citizens even more than before? don't mind if I do!" It's always a snowball effect.

KEEP IN MIND THE EUROPE COUNCIL WILL LIKELY VOTE ON CHAT CONTROL THIS 19 JUNE OF NEXT WEEK TO SEE IF IT WILL ENTER TRILOGIES OR NOT. Even if it does enter Trilogues, the fight will only be beginning. Absentees may not count as a no, so it is crucial that you contact your MEPs HERE, as well as HERE, and you can also show your support for Edri's campaign against Chat Control HERE.

You can read more on Chat Control here as well, and you can find useful information as to which arguments to use when politely contacting your MEP (calling is better than email) here, and beneath you will find graphics you can use to spread the word!

YOU CAN ALSO JOIN OUR DISCORD SERVER (linked here) TO HELP ORGANIZE AGAINST CHAT CONTROL NON EU PEOPLE ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN TOO!

https://discord.gg/FPDJYkUujM

PLEASE REBLOG ! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT ! Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

PLEASE REBLOG! NON EU PEOPLE ARE ENCOURAGED TO REBLOG AS WELL CONTACT YOUTUBERS, CONTENT CREATORS, ANYONE YOU KNOW THAT MAY HELP GET THE WORD OUT !

Let's fight for our Internet and actually keep kids safe online! Because Chat Control and EU Going Dark will only endanger kids.

[well-maxed-kaiser]

I love reading the "opinions on legality" of people that would like all their apps to be tiktok

[ms-demeanor]

any thoughts on the new post that staff went scorched earth on which is now making the rounds abt tumblr live? it basically screenshots all the tos and claims if you've ever opened the app (or in some rbs, unsnoozed live) tumblr has gotten your data. on the one hand i feel like this is fearmongering, but on the other its true that MOST sites have your data as is so its pretty standard. you seem pretty knowledgeable abt data gathering so i was wondering abt your take

This is going to be pretty unkind but watching tumblr users interact with staff and live is a great primer on how conspiracy theories happen.

Nobody on this fucking website knows how to read a ToS, nobody on this website knows how anything fucking works (sorry, this is not a dig at you but how would tumblr "get" your data from you clicking or unclicking live; the only data that tumblr has on you is the data that you have put on tumblr what data do people think that clicking the "new" button is scooping up that is anything beyond interactions or posts or IP addresses which are the things that tumblr already has information about like you do not introduce new information into the tumblr ecosystem by clicking a button you haven't installed anything you haven't changed permissions on your browser if everyone is so goddamned scared about live stealing their data i strongly recommend they stop using anything but public internet through an anonymizer and making sure location data is shut off on all of their devices and anyone who is flipping their shit about the type of data that live is collecting but who is using chrome on any device needs to chill the fuck out about live and flip the fuck out about google)

this is like that post about twitter's content policy that circulated the other day or that post about deviantart's content policy that circulated ten fucking years ago nobody knows how to read legal documents and nobody knows how to read technical documentation and this comes together into unholy matrimony on the no reading comprehension at all moral panic website

live never violated the GDPR it was just rolled out in the US first but the entire userbase decided that because it hadn't been rolled out simultaneously in the EU and the US that it was SO UNSPEAKABLY PRIVACY VIOLATEY THAT THE EU HAD BANNED IT FOR ITS CRIMES with, like, nothing whatsoever backing that up because, again, even at its most intrusive Live collects about as much data as Twitter or Yelp, both of which are *capable* of meeting GDPR standards with that level of data collection (even if musk sometimes makes decisions that violate GDPR).

Live is significantly less intrusive than any facebook product, than Amazon, and than any Google product. If you use youtube logged in, don't worry about live, the horse is out of the barn and tumblr is the least of your worries *regardless* of live. If you regularly use Google as a search engine please god learn how to evaluate and compare risks across platforms because Live is like a coughing baby compared to about a dozen things that most highly online people interact with every single day.

If you don't want to use live don't use live. Clicking the button doesn't magically transfer your secret FBI file to tumblr and even agreeing to the ToS doesn't share anything that tumblr doesn't already have if you don't continue to interact - if you don't interact with live after agreeing to the ToS it's not collecting any data except your non-interaction.

For everyone who is losing it over Live just turn off your goddamned location on your fucking cellphone and turn off your location on your goddamned computers and that's it, you're good, you're fine, relax. If your response to "turn off your location" is "but I need it for _____" then don't worry about Live, whatever "_____" is was already collecting and selling your data.

Do you use an activity tracker? Congrats, you have much, much bigger privacy issues to worry about than tumblr live.

Okay but also I yelled about that post and the very many ways in which it was incorrect in January.

And I happened to take an archive of the page at that time because I'm a paranoid motherfucker.

And if you want my guess as to why staff went "scorched earth" on that post it's probably because if you scroll down to the bottom of the page on the archive, OP calls on everyone looking at the post to send a kind fuck you to the CEO then tagged his tumblr.

If you look at the other posts that went scorched earth in relation to tumblr staff they were also posts that very pointedly directed a lot of ire at a single staff member.

I don't think that any individual tumblr staff members are above criticism and I don't think that staff as a whole is above criticism but part of learning to read a ToS is understanding that someone can be shitty and vague and use TERF talking points and skirt the line and be technically okay under the ToS while someone can have a legitimate gripe about another user being horrible and manage to violate the ToS by accidentally spinning up a harassment campaign or suicide baiting someone.

Shitty people like nazis and terfs thrive on being edge cases. They are very good at finding a boundary and standing juuuuuuuuust on this side of it and going "la la la I'm not violating the ToS, you can't stop me!" and that blows and it leads to a lot of people encountering a lot of shitty stuff on a lot of websites but personally I'm pretty glad that there's a lot of gray area because when you cut out gray area that's when you see things like It's Going Down getting banned as extremist content alongside white supremacists. Please continue to report nazis and terfs, and when possible go deep into their pages to report because a pattern of behavior is more likely to get recognized as hate speech than a single post that gets reported a hundred times. Please block as many people who it's harmful for you to interact with as possible because it's clear that staff is not going to do the kind of work protecting users that users would like staff to do.

However I just can't get angry on behalf of a blogger who got nuked for saying "Hey everyone who hates this feature that we all hate please go tell the CEO to fuck himself at this URL specifically" - that is an extremely clear violation of the ToS because it is absolutely targeted harassment.

So now tumblr-the-userbase is going off on its merry conspiracy way skipping through fields and lacking reading comprehension and saying "users are getting banned for reporting the crimes of tumblr live and its gdpr violations" and ignoring the fact that the post was nuked because the last line was saying "hey everyone, let's all individually tell the CEO to fuck off in messages sent directly to him that are certainly not going to include any threats, exaggerations, gore, etc. etc. etc."

If I were to make a post that had 50k notes and the last line was "and while you're at it, please send tumblr-user-ms-demeanor a personalized message telling them why they're a terrible person so they know what we think of them" it would absolutely be reasonable to say that was harassing that user. And that post did it with the CEO. Who is not above criticism (and I have my criticisms! I don't think he really gets tumblr and that's a problem!), but jesus fucking christ don't tag the goddamned CEO or any other staff member in a call to action asking users to send them messages saying "fuck off" this is literally the stupidest thing I've ever seen a tumblr conspiracy theory coalesce around.

Anyway thank you for giving me a place to vent i've been getting more and more pissed about this for three days. Everyone feel free to kindly tell tumblr user ms demeanor to fuck off.

[mschelle]

Well hot damn if it wasn't enough for this loser to throw a public tantrum now he's going out of his way to follow predestrogen on other platforms and start harassing her there!!! You can't hide these Matt I got the screenshots lol!!!!!!

HE'S BLATANTLY LYING OUT OF HIS ASS!! SPREAD IT AROUND!! And also since she seems to be from Ireland even though I don't even know shit about eu laws from what little I do know this is a big violation of GDPR and should be reported as such!! https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/redress/what-should-i-do-if-i-think-my-personal-data-protection-rights-havent-been-respected_en

[mostly-paper-kind]

a thing happened today and turns out it is possible for my imposter syndrome to get worse than it currently is