In this video:
Rakesh Maheshwari, Sr Director, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology
Topic: Requirements for compliance to the IT Act and related laws by Government Departments
Key Highlights:
+ The SPDI Rule, 2011 contains privacy policy that address – type of personal or sensitive personal data, retention period, details of disclosure to third party, precautions taken by organisations to protect data
+ With DP Bill, 2021, the scope of personal data and its protection requirements significantly expanded
+ As per the DP Bill, 2021, the government organisations will become data fiduciaries and data processor and will have to fulfill obligation as defined for them
+ Those Government organisations looking to promote their accounts must use separate machines for linking the posts from their official accounts otherwise the account could get blocked