Amber Sinha attended a roundtable conference on data protection and privacy on October 30, 2017 at India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. The close-door event was organised by the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations.
Participants at the conference discussed:

• Role of consent in data protection, how it should be configured in India
• Conflicts between the data minimization principle and big data
• Governance approaches to data protection
• Propertarian view of data
• Need for capacity building in India and institutions who should be involved in the data protection regime, and
• Cross border data flows and data localisation

For more details visit https://cis-india.org/internet-governance/news/data-protection-and-privacy-in-india-the-fundamental-right-way