This is the fifth post in our series covering our events in Delhi and Bangalore on India’s Data Protection Law. Click here to read the rest. “The most depressing part about the bill is the wide exceptions that they carved out for the state (based processing of data). If I’m a user and the state is processing my data, they don’t even need my consent.” said Vidushi Marda, Policy Advisor at ARTICLE19 at the #NAMAprivacy discussion on the data protection bill in Bangalore last month. The following are some of the key points made in both, Delhi and Bengaluru. Please note that these points are not necessarily listed in the order they were made and are not verbatim excerpts of the speakers’ remarks. We’ve edited them for brevity. User rights: Portability, and the right to be forgotten "Its a modern provision and I love data portability. But what we have put down in our data portability provision is three times more than what GDPR has put in," said Rahul Matthan, Partner, Trilegal. Data Portability: Portability blew my mind. The only reason I’m taking all this data with so many layers of consent and accountability is to build IP. And now I’m suddenly required to give all that data to a different fiduciary because you said so? Where’s the quid pro quo? When you go on YouTube, their recommendations are based on what you’ve been watching. That’s their IP. To deny that is to say that you don’t understand the basics of how technology…
