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Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Wednesday 11 December 2019

Dangerous ? Orwellian ? Stringent ?




Today’s media reports describe the Data Protection Bill , in these terms


Read these :




Extract :

Ø  Justice BN Srikrishna , said the bill, which allows the Centre to exempt its agencies from some or all provisions, is “ dangerous ” and can turn India into an “ Orwellian State”.

Ø  “They have removed the safeguards. That is most dangerous. The government can at any time access private data or government agency data on grounds of sovereignty or public order. This has dangerous implications,” Srikrishna told ET.

Ø  “The Select Committee has the right to change this. If they call me, I will tell them this is nonsense. I believe there should be judicial oversight on government access,” Srikrishna added.

“It will weaken the bill and turn India into an
Orwellian State.”




RELATED OBSERVATIONS :

2024 ! – V 2.0 of Orwellian 1984 ?                                                   [ 07 July 2017 ]


Who watches the Watchmen ?                                                         [ 12  July  2019  ]




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Extract :

India’s personal data protection bill offers stronger provisions to users seeking deletion of their information from commercial and social platforms compared with European privacy laws according to officials and legal experts.

The new Bill provides for Right to Erasure, in addition to the provision of Right to be forgotten in the draft bill submitted by a panel led by retired Supreme Court judge Justice BN Srikrishna.

The Bill allows individuals to approach the adjudicating officer under the independent regulator (the Data Protection Authority) to restrict or delete personal content that meets certain predefined criteria.

A top government official told ET that the rules in India will apply to any organisation that has user data including “search engines”.

Legal experts are of the view that there are several implementation challenges with the provisions and the real test will come in defining what user data was required to perform the task in hand and how to ascertain that it’s purpose was now over.

“It is likely to be one of the most crucial features of the Bill, the Right to be Forgotten may see some of the longest debates or court room battles as companies would want to design their consent requirement broadly versus data principals or individuals wanting it to narrow,” said Dipti Lavya Swain, partner at HSA Advocates.

 “The new Bill is stronger in terms of protecting the user privacy from private entities. In this regard, the Bill is an improvement over the 2018 draft,” said Udbhav Tiwari, policy advisor, Mozilla Corporation.

Tiwari added the new Bill has added the provision around Right to Erasure, which says that users can ask data fiduciaries to delete the data which is no longer necessary for the purpose it was collected for.

 “The earlier provisions were not clear and didn’t create such active obligations on the service provider around erasure.”


A member of the Justice BN Srikrishna Committee which drafted the PDP Bill said that it remains to be seen how Right to be Forgotten and Erasure will be implemented.


“We got the feedback from companies that Right to be Forgotten is the most difficult provision to implement in the GDPR.”


Even if the data fiduciary deletes the data, what happens to newspaper reports about the same incident, these are questions which will need to be carefully considered, the person told ET.


RELATED  OBSERVATIONS :

#  Congratulations, Your Honour !                                         [  22  Mar  2019  ]


    Extract :


    Which “ Your Honour “ ?
    Hon Justices V Ramasubramanian and P Keshava Rao , of Hyderabad High Court

  
    What did the judges say ?
    "In this 'online Maya Bazar', information once registered or shared gets multiplied by
     millions of times.


     By the time an order for deletion is passed, the bug repeats itself several
     times and deletion without a trace appears improbable “



#   Privacy ? What is that ?                                                        [  04  May  2017  ]

      
      Extract :
·         Do our mobile phones / mobile apps relay EVERYTHING about us to their designers / manufacturers , all the time ?  
    ( Ans : Have no doubts ! )

·       Do Google / Facebook / LinkedIn / Twitter etc know your “ intentions “ and pass these onto e-commerce companies for a hefty price ?   

     ( Ans : You bet they do ! )



·       What will remain “ private “ when IP V 6.0 arrives , when EVERY single object on your body ( and in your immediate surrounding ) , gets a unique URL number and captures your voice / movement / intentions on 24*365 basis and relays that DATA to the BIG BROTHER ?    

     ( Ans : Nothing ! )


#    Delusion of Privacy ?                                                [  10  June  2017  ]


      Extract :

          The privacy policy of the Bharat Interface for Money ( BHIM ) says…. :


   “ …… once you give us your personal information , you are not anonymous to us.


    We may automatically track certain information about you based upon your behavior on
    our app , to the extent we deem fit “

#     Privacy ? Perish the Thought !                                           [  18  July  2017  ]


     Extract :

       Under Internet of Things ( IoT ) , each living human will get assigned 50,000 TRILLION , unique IP Addresses , under IP V 6.0 ( including for that packet of food we eat and that bottle of water we drink ! ) – that is  10 BILLION  IP addresses for each hair on our bodies !


·         We will be “ Watched / Measured / Imaged / Listened to / Analysed / Administered / Governed “ , every second of our lives ( - and no one will even ask for any permission ! )


Anyone wearing an AR / VR device ( which will be everyone ! ) , will know who we are and what we are doing , at ANY MOMENT !


·         The Omnipresent CLOUD will tell us , what we should NEED and what we should DESIRE and where we should TRAVEL and what we should SEE ! May be , even how long we should LIVE !


#   Thank You Your Honours !                                               [ 19  June  2017  ]


     Extract :

     Justice Chandrachud also posed several questions on data protection in the age of social
     media, saying ,
·         SOCIAL MEDIA  did not exist when the  CONSTITUTION  was made.
·         IF PEOPLE HAVE PUT THEMSELVES IN THE PUBLIC REALM  USING TECHNOLOGY,  IS
          THAT NOT A SURRENDER OF THEIR RIGHT TO PRIVACY ?,” the judge said, asking if right
           to privacy is non-negotiable

#  Supreme may Propose : Technology will Dispose                     [  23  July  2017  ]


    Extract :
         And what about PRIVATE / PERSONAL information about Indian Citizens , already
         available on the internet that ANYONE can scrap and even sell to others ?

    To know the extent of this issue , in Google , just type :


    “ Database Vendors in India “ ( Which of these 58.4 LAKH , will you sue ? )
           { As of 12 Dec 2019  , Google Results number  222 LAKH  }

  #   Data Protection without Data Privacy ?                                [ 08 Jan 2018 ]

            Extract :
        As far as that matter of CONSENT is concerned , all those devices will warn you when
        you switch on :



       “ BY USING THIS DEVICE , YOU ARE AGREEING TO OUR COLLECTING ANY / ALL DATA
        ABOUT YOU AND ALSO ALLOWING US TO USE IT FOR WHATEVER PURPOSE WE THINK
        FIT “


#   Nightmare ?                                                                         [  04  Mar  2019  ]


       Extract  :

      Parallel to the Theory of Thermodynamics , I would like to propound the
     following  as far as the “ Theory of Information “ is concerned :
    
     “  Like Entropy , content keeps growing with each and every human
     interaction , either with other humans or with his environment , and content
     can no longer remain hidden , nor can it be destroyed  “

#   Internet Bill of Rights                                                     [  07 Oct  2018  ]


      Extract :

           Under Ro Khanna’s proposal , it will be up to “ aggrieved individual citizen “ to fight out
           his case ( in a court of law ) for any misuse of his personal consent by Facebook /
           Google etc .


      It would be the same with our own proposed DATA  PROTECTION  LAW !


      This is mockery  !


      Do we expect ONE BILLION Indians to hire Cyber Crime Experts / Lawyers,


Ø   To keep spying on hundreds of web sites


Ø   To unearth WHO is misusing his personal data ,


Ø  WHEN and HOW and for WHAT purpose


Ø  In breach of his personal / individual “ Contract “ with the offender , as per


Ø  “ I accept the TERMS / CONDITIONS “ click ?
          

      

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12  Dec  2019
hcp@RecruitGuru.com

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