We are happy to share that Asst. Professor Aatman Shukla was an attendee at the Bharat Privacy Conference 2024, organized by the DPO Club at Manekshaw Centre, Delhi with the support of Digital India initiative and the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.
The Bharat Privacy Conference 2024 was a spiritual successor to the hugely successful Namma Privacy 2024 Conference, held in Bengaluru earlier this year where Dhirubhai Ambani University – School of Law was proud to be an academic partner. With experts representing academia, industry, law, and policy making, the Bharat Privacy Conference 2024 served as a pivotal platform for fostering awareness amongst academics and common citizens alike with the advent of a new privacy regime in the form of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), and promoting collaboration to empower individuals with their data protection rights.
The event also saw industry bigwigs and experts attend as speakers and dignitaries, including Dhananjay Khanna Sr. VP & Chief Information Security Officer, SBI Cards; Saranya Gopinath Director, Razorpay; Rakesh Maheshwari Ex Senior Director & Group Co-ord., Cyber Laws and Data Governance, MEITy; Uthara Ganesh Head of Public Policy; Snapchat Varsha Shivanagowda General Counsel, Mobile Premier League India and Vijayashankar Nagarajarao Data Governance and DPDPA Auditor and Executive Chairman, FDPPI.
These luminaries offered their wisdom and insights on the thorny and contemporary issues in light of new privacy legislation about topics as varied as the special legal undergirding provided to children’s privacy rights by the DPPDA protecting them from the scourge of targeted advertising, whether new laws are too harsh for Significant Data Fiduciaries and if the accompanying compliance burden will be too heavy to bear for small and medium enterprises, which nevertheless deal in a vast amount of data.
All in all, the event was a must-catch, breaking down barriers hindering the adoption of privacy rights, promoting interface and dialogue between policymakers and industry and paving new roads on the country’s path to Viksit Bharat 2047.