Panel Discussion On Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

The Law and Technology Society, NLSIU, a student-run committee of the University, invites students, practitioners and academicians across all areas of law to a panel discussion on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023. The event will take place on September 2, 2023 from 2.30 pm to 4 pm.

Abstract

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 was gazetted on 11 August 2023. This legislation has been the culmination of discussion and deliberation for the past 8 years and stands to have a transformative effect on individuals and businesses in India. Therefore, it becomes extremely important to evaluate the ramifications of the bill from a multi-disciplinary perspective including inter alia the academic, business as well as practical perspectives.

The distinguished panelists include:

Ms Malavika Raghavan (Moderator): Ms Raghavan is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Economics undertaking cross-disciplinary research across disciplines of Law and Information Systems. She is also a Senior Fellow at the Future for Privacy Forum, and Visiting Faculty at the Daksha Fellowship, Sai University. Through these roles, and her previous role as Head of the Future of Finance Initiative at Dvara Research she has engaged deeply with various versions of proposals for an Indian data protection bill.

Mr Arun Prabhu: Mr Prabhu is a Partner at Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas and heads the Technology and Telecommunications practice. He specialises in offering sector-specific, cutting edge advice about technology to clients who are exposed to increased industry-specific risks.

Mr Vivek Reddy: Mr Vivek Reddy is a Senior Advocate of the Telangana High Court and the founding partner at Vivek Reddy Law Chambers. He is a graduate of NLSIU and Harvard Law School. He had worked on the initial Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the Data Protection Bill and represents technology companies in various litigation matters.

Ms Sriya Sridhar: Ms Sridhar is currently a part of the in-house legal team at Setu, a fin-tech company (part of the Pine Labs group), prior to which she practiced at a law firm within the IP and Technology practice. Her practice focuses primarily on technology laws (currently with a focus on fin-tech) and contracting, privacy laws and regulatory compliance.

Ameen Jauhar: Mr Jauhar is the senior resident fellow at the Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and leads its Centre for Applied Law & Tech Research (ALTR). He is well-versed in Global South tech policy issues, with specialised knowledge of and practice in the Indian landscape.

E-Certificates will be provided to the attendees.

About L-Tech

The Law and Technology Society (‘L-Tech’) is one of Asia’s oldest student-run tech-law groups and is committed to exploring the boundless contours of the intriguing interface between law and technology.  It is one amongst the many societies at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The main objective of the committee is to build up-to-date scholarship in this field by making research panels and by organizing a series of interesting events including seminars, conferences, policy-making competitions, essay competitions, etc.