In April, we corresponded with the Parliament’s Standing Committee on Information Technology when we learnt that it was conducting hearings on ‘Citizen’s Data Security and Privacy’, following the Cambridge Analytica revelations and the longer discussion in India around data privacy. Last week we learned that the Committee has through a press release taken up the citizen demand for public consultation [link].
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/standing-committee-on-it-can-do-more-to-saveourprivacy/