There needs to be some control over social media, but not completely in hands of govt: Justice Srikrishna

Indubitably so. Today, there is vacuum on the subject and nobody seems to take data breaches seriously, because there are no stinging consequences following data breaches.

No, I did not send any comments to the committee because nobody invited me to. I never received any invitation from the JPC and I was not going to seek any invitation.

Once the real value data and the real consequences breach thereof are spelt out by an appropriate law, then the Competition Commission may look at it more strictly.

While there may have to be some control over social media, I am not in favour of vesting such control completely in the hands of the government. Such control should ideally be vested in an independent oversight body of which the majority members should be professionals, academics, lawyers and other non-government persons from civil society. As far as controlling electronic media disseminating news is concerned, I am opposed to it. In my opinion, there should be no pre-publishing control on them just as in the case of print media. "PPublish at your peril", should be the motto.

Absence of a parliamentary legislation declaring its objectives. The two acts relied upon do not give such authority to some committee which had issued the Aarogya Setu rules making it compulsory. That is why though declared as mandatory initially, later the government stepped down and made it voluntary. The looming threat that data collected under the garb of health security could be misused for other purpose, is ever present in the absence of a data protection law.