FDPPI is your Privacy Companion

One of the notable mentions made by Prime Minister Mr Modi during the Independence Day Speech yesterday was a call for development of Indigenous standards.

This was heartening since FDPPI has been working on the indigenous standard DGPSI (Data Governance and Protection Standard of India) which is meant as a framework for organizations to be compliant with DPDPA 2023.

Currently many organizations and professionals work around available but incompatible frameworks such as ISO 27001 and 27701 and claim that they are able to achieve compliance of DPDPA 2023.

This view arises both from the point that the companies know these frameworks, worked with them and are familiar. The fear of the unknown and “Resistance to Change” prevents them from even considering an alternative solution. Often they find excuse in the fact that their customers ask them if they are ISO 27001 compliant or GDPR Compliant and therefore they have no choice.

Choices can be considered only if there is a conviction that frameworks like ISO 27001 or 27701 were created for different contexts and though they may be best suited for those contexts, they need not be so for he Indian context.

For Example we have repeatedly drawn comparison to Cricket and pointed out that Gavaskar is a legend but today for the T 20 matches he is not the right choice ahead of say Suryakumar Yadav. Mr Neeraj Chopra may be the best Javelin Thrower in India but you cannot ask him to compete in discuss throw or shotput.

Once companies shed their resistance to look at the new frameworks, they need to understand what the framework suggests and arrive at their own conclusions about whether a customized ISO 27701 is a solution for DPDPA 2023 compliance or DGPSI is a better solution.

We must also accept that “Frameworks” are only guidelines and just because we follow a framework it does not mean that we are perfect in compliance. We all know how many companies in India are ISO 27001 compliant and whether they have the necessary security infrastructure. Implementation is therefore extremely important and this comes only with the understanding of the law of DPDPA 2023.

FDPPI in its One day workshops on “Implementation Challenges in DPDPA 2023” of the type being conducted in Navi Mumbai on August 31 and in Mumbai on September 1 addresses these requirements.

We invite all professionals in Mumbai and Pune to take advantage of this program and attend the same.

Naavi

Based on the discussions had in the event of July 27 at Bengaluru and taking into account the written comments submitted by participants, FDPPI has collated the views and submitted a report to MeitY.

FDPPI has not yet formed the sector wise SIGs and formulated the recommendations on sector basis.

We will await the next version of the rules to be released by MeitY for further action in this regard.

A Copy of the report submitted is available in the library link in the menu.

FDPPI and Naavi thanks all the physical and virtual participants of the event held yesterday at Bangalore. Special thanks to the panellists for sharing their valuable views. It was a hybrid event with the physical event happening at Suchitra Auditorium, Bengaluru.

Chief Additional Metropolitan Magistrate Sri C.K. Veeresh Kumar inaugurated the event and shared important suggestions for the effective functioning of the Dispute Resolution Mechanism under DPDPA/ITA 2000. Professor N K Goyal and Mr Rakesh Maheshwari (former Senior Director of MeitY) participated in the inaugural session (virtually).

Sri Rakesh Maheshwari gave a brief overview of the DPPDA Act and the proposed rules.

Naavi anchored the five panel discussions posing nearly 100 different questions to highlight the concerns related to the implementation of the proposed rules and the industry experts a few of whom participated virtually shared their views. In the process important insights have been gathered and are being collated.

All the participants have also been requested to present their views on the presently available rules and the suggestions will be collated and submitted to the MeitY.

Naavi

Those registered participants who have not received invitation for the curtain raiser event today may kindly send an email…Naavi

REGISTER HERE

https://www.iletsolutions.com/fdppi_conference

FDPPI will be conducting a day long deliberations with the industry on July 27 to discuss the DPDPA Rules as published for Public consultation and collate the views for submission to MeitY.

The tentative program is as follows.

Participation is by registration and physical participation is limited. Registration can be made here:

https://www.iletsolutions.com/fdppi_conference

Feedback survey forms will be distributed at the venue to the registered participants and later by email to the online participants. This will be collated for submission to MeitY.

All Registered participants will be provided a full rebate of their delegate fee from the C.DPO.DA. program in the next one month by iLet Solutions and a discount of Rs 499/- by the publishers of the book “Privacy Guardians…”

For more information and Registration

https://www.iletsolutions.com/fdppi_conference

The much awaited DPDPA rules is expected to be announced within the next two weeks. The published rules will be draft rules for public consultation.

In anticipation, FDPPI is organizing a full day event at Bangalore on July 27 to disseminate information on the rules and to collate the feedback from industries such as Fintech, Health Care, Digital Marketing, Education, Start Ups, MSMEs, Manufacturing industries etc.

A Draft set of Rules has so far been released by MeitY. It will be available here in a few days so that industry can formulate their thoughts to discuss on July 27.

The Venue of the Conference is Suchitra Film Society Auditorium at : 36, 9th Main, B V Karanth Road, 9th Main Road, near Post Office, Banashankari Stage II, Banashankari, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560070.

The tentative program includes discussions in multiple panels as follows:

1. Panel 1: FDPPI: Introducing the observations of FDPPI
2. Panel 2: Health Sector: Impact of DPDPA Rules on Health Sector
3. Panel 3:Fintech: Impact of DPDPA Rules on Fintech Sector
4. Panel 4: Education: Impact of DPDPA Rules on Education Sector
5. Panel 5: Other Industries: Impact of DPDPA Rules on Digital marketing and Manufacturing Sector

The program is a hybrid program with speakers joining from all over India. The feedback received from the industry will be briefly discussed and collated for subsequent submission to MeitY.

Participation is by registration and physical participation is limited. Registration can be made here:

https://www.iletsolutions.com/fdppi_conference

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Earlier Articles:

https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-the-data-protection-board-of-india/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-consent-manager/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-management-of-data-principals-rights/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-the-significant-data-fiduciary/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-which-provisions-will-become-effective-now/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-publishing-the-business-contact-information-of-dpo/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-data-breach-notification/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/dpdpa-rules-how-will-legacy-data-consent-be-handled/
https://www.naavi.org/wp/will-a-copy-of-draft-notice-be-part-of-the-rules/

With the new cabinet of Modi 3.0 announced, it is heartening to note that Mr Ashwini Vashnav continues to be the minister for IT along with Railways and Information and Broadcasting. Digital publishing being a major part of Meity’s regulations, it is good that I&B ministry has been combined with MeitY at the level of the minister.

The MOS of IT Mr Rajev Chandrashekar unfortunately lost his election narrowly in Tiruvananthapuram against Mr Shashi Tharoor and will be missed for continuity. We wish Rajeev Chandrashekar all the best in his next stint as a party worker either in Kerala or in Bangalore which he represented in the Rajya Sabha.

In place of Mr Mr Rajeev Chandrashekar, we have now Mr Jitin Prasada as the new minister of state for IT.

A product of Doon School Dehradun and an MBA from International Management institute in New Delhi, Jitin Prasada recently served as a Minister in the UP state Government as Minister of Technical Education for 2 years.

We hope under the guidance of Mr Ashwin Vaishnaw, he would ensure that the projects of MeitY are implemented without any slackness.

Naavi

BSPIN and FDPPI has jointly organized an online Fire Chat discussion today at 10.00 am on DPDPA 2023 and ITA 2000.

Registration can be done here

On request, attendees will be issued participation certificate with 2 hours CPE credit. Attendees will also get a 20% discount on the book “Privacy Guardians…”

Naavi

FDPPI is pleased to announce that the flagship event of FDPPI namely IDPS 2024 has been scheduled for November 30 and December 1 2024 (Changed from Nov 22, 23 and 24 of 2024.)

The program will be hybrid with physical event at KLE Law College, Ullal Bengaluru between 9.30 am to 5.30 pm.

The general theme of the seminar would be “Privacy issues in AI and Robotics, The Law, Technology and Governance”.

Details of individual sessions and speakers are being finalized.

Request all professionals to mark the dates in their calendars.

Any corporate which wants to participate in the conference as sponsor or virtual exhibitor of their products may contact FDPPI.

Naavi

[P.S: This post was edited on 11th October 2024 consequent to change in the date of the event]

FDPPI along with Naavi has embarked on a mission to spread DPDPA awareness amongst the public as well as professionals.

As part of this objective, FDPPI has revised its pricing strategy for the courses on Certified Data Protection Professional from the fixed Course fee payment to a time based subscription model.

The new scheme essentially enables those who are focussed on completing the course to complete the course on a fast track basis at a relatively low cost. Students can take subscriptions to different courses for a 2 month period which can be extended if required.

Further, students would be having the option to book “Mentor Sessions” where they will have a virtual real time interaction with the faculty to get clarifications after going through the video lessons.

In the past, since the access to the course modules was available for an indefinite period, there was no incentive to complete the course quicky and students tended to take upto 6 months for a course which they should normally complete within a month. The new system therefore fixes the subscription at 2 months which is extendable in blocks of further two months.

The two month subscription for different courses as a Self paced access are as follows: (GST Extra).

As a further commitment to spread the DPDPA professional knowledge and skills, every month, 5 students would be provided a discount of 30% over the above market price for first two months.

Additionally, for those who register for the courses before the rules are notified, one free virtual session of around 2 hours would be provided as a bridging session to update them on the rules.

Reading material would be provided in softcopy form for all the courses.

Examination and Certification

All participants will be provided participation certificate after they clock at least 90% of the video time for the course and a quiz.

Those who would like to opt for C.DPO.DA. certification need to pass an online examination. The examination fee for those who attend the C.DPO.DA. course as above would be Rs 10000/-

However open entry would be provided to professionals who may not undergo the training program at an examination fee of Rs 25000/-

Repeat examination fee would be Rs 6000/-

The passing of the examination would be based on a system of normalization and relative scoring. The decision of FDPPI in this regard is final and not subject to debate.

Naavi