A serious debate over the setting up of a data privacy law has
been doing the rounds for more than half a decade now. India has
gone through several twists and turns in the quest to build a data
privacy law framework that matches other mature jurisdictions
worldwide. However, the more India comes close to making a robust
data privacy law, the more it appears to be becoming a Sisyphean
task. This article highlights how we are stuck in an endless loop
when it comes to formulating the data privacy law in India.
Justice B N Srikrishna Committee
On 31 July 2017, the Ministry of Electronics and Information
Technology (MEITY) constituted an expert committee led by Justice B
N Srikrishna to study and identify key data protection issues. The
decision to constitute an expert committee came when the Supreme
Court of India was hearing the Puttaswamy case.
