IT Act

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In January 2024, Amazon France Logistique was fined €32 million by the French Data Protection Authority, CNIL for its employee data processing practices. The company’s employee monitoring practices¹ caught attention of the regulator for being excessive, non-transparent and violative of privacy rights of employees under the Eur0pean Union’s (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The […]

Find the full report here. Overview 2023 was an eventful year in India’s tech policy landscape and for us at DeepStrat. We expanded our policy risks vertical, engaged in several public consultations, undertook new projects, published several studies, built collaborations, and designed solutions. This is a recap of how the landscape evolved and the key […]

Categories: Digital India Act, IT Act

Access full report here.   1. Research analysis Summary of Recommendations: Identify user harm for artificial and natural persons, vulnerable groups and map proportionate response and redressal mechanisms. Identify scope of online harms not covered under existing legal provisions such as IPC and Competition Act. This would include damage to computer systems, tampering with computer […]

Categories: Digital India Act, IT Act

Access the full report here. 1. Research analysis – Emerging Technologies  Summary of Recommendations Establish a regulatory sandbox model imbibing principles of an; Adaptive-outcome based approach, Risk-weighted approach Collaborative approach. Utilise the sandbox framework to establish liability standards for emerging technologies.   Background Emerging technologies are new technological innovations that break new ground in a […]

Categories: Digital India Act, IT Act

Find the full report here. 1.1. Research analysis – Intermediary Classification Classification of Intermediaries under the proposed Digital India Act   Summary of Recommendations   Lay down definitions of key online intermediaries. Align definitions under DIA with internationally accepted standard definitions. 3 Models of Classification to be considered in conjunction with each other for the […]