The Justice Srikrishna Committee has released a draft data protection law for India, and in this event, we will be discussing the issues related to the draft bill, looking at the following issues amongst others:

• Issues related to data sovereignty, localisation, mirroring and cross border data flows.

• Impact on consent, data collection, storage and transfer.

• Role of the data protection authority, auditing and enforcement mechanisms

• Right to be forgotten and data erasure

• Governance of government data collection and use, and the regulation of surveillance

• Impact on notice and consent

• Understanding penalties