GDPR : Recent savior of privacy

Have you ever wondered on getting spam mails which are relevant to your searches in search engine? How these companies or organizations are aware of our personal email? This raises a big question mark on how safe we are in this fast developing digital world, where internet has become the part and parcel of our life. Do we have sufficient laws to protect our personal and sensitive data?

GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation :

GDPR – General Data Protection Regulation, passed in April 2018 and came into effect in May 2018, became the recent safeguard of people’s personal data. This regulation was passed in European Commission covering all its member states. It replaces the earlier Data Protection Directive 1995 by adding more scope for securing the privacy of the EU citizens and punishing those who breach it.

Data Should Be User Friendly

Important change is that the scope of locality is now widened where the controllers and processors of the data may be located anywhere but if the data of the subjects which they are processing are located in European Union, then the controllers and processors will come under the ambit of GDPR. The terms and conditions on receiving consent of the citizens to obtain and process their data should be given neatly and user friendly. It should not be long and difficult to go through.

Also it includes penalties for the breach of data as suggested by GDPR compliance or 20 Euros maximum, depending upon the infringement. The controllers and processors are entitled to provide the purpose of collection of data and the procedure of processing of the data. If the concerned person is not likely to let out his information, then data erasure option can be used by him to erase his personal data from being processed.

GDPR includes many other similar regulations to provide safety to the citizens and maintain their privacy. India, the soon to be most populated country, where majority of its subjects are using smart phones and live their major part of life in internet, must think something of its own on the lines of GDPR. Recent allegations on the breach of Aadhar, which holds sensitive biometric data of the majority of its citizens, clearly strikes the necessity of such safety regulation.

Written By Social Author Miss.Prabha Kathamuthu