Cyber security laws, lawyers and law firms in India and abroad are scanty to find. This is because fields like cyber security need expertise that legal fraternity is currently not possessing. However, if we see the global cyber security legal practice trend, legal community has started exploring techno legal fields.
Just like cyber law and cyber security legal practices, privacy protection, data protection and data security lawyers and law firms are also limited in nature. As far as India is concerned, we have no dedicated privacy, data protection and data security law. This is a serious limitation that is resulting in poor privacy, data protection and data security legal practice in India.
On the other hand the cyber law of India, incorporated in the information technology act 2000, imposes many cyber laws due diligence obligations upon various stakeholders like banks, companies, internet intermediaries, website owners, etc. This is a serious issue whose seriousness has not been properly appreciated by stakeholders in India.
With the recent formulation of rules under the IT Act 2000 regarding privacy and data protection, the due diligence requirements regarding privacy protection and data protection in India have become very stringent.
It is in the own interest of various stakeholders operating in India to adopt techno legal privacy and data protection strategies so that they may not be violating the cyber law and other laws of India.
Needless to mention such techno legal policies and strategies must be formulated by techno legal law firms alone as it is a delicate issue that requires balancing of both technical and legal issues involved.
The outsourcing industry must pay a special attention to the techno legal requirements of privacy, data protection and data security issues. Perry4Law and Perry4Law Techno Legal Base (PTLB) strongly recommend formulating and adopting best practices by stakeholders in this regard.
I think there is an urgent need to bring quick awareness among citizen on ""Data protections laws"", including its wide ambit, also the protections and punishments provided in it, so that people are less prone to violations & breaches. Though, specially a Data Protection Act not yet been introduced in India, but, there are various provisions under IT Act, 2005, as amended to cover the legislation. The Data Protection Act has its presence in various other nations. like USA, UK, Etc..
ReplyDeleteI THINK SPECIALLY THE COMPANIES WORKING ON IMPORTANT DATA MUST GET THE LEGAL COMPLIANCE DONE ON DATA PROTECTION, PRIVACY & SECURITY & KNOW HOW & TRADE SECRETS ......