"The Justice B N Srikrishna white paper should be published in Hindi and other languages too”

“In my opinion, it is not the consent that is broken but it is the notice. We go and try to explain in a legal language of what he is signing up for, regardless of the fact whether he understands or not. At the end of it, a person clicks on a consent button affirming his action that he has understood everything what he is signing up for, what kind of processing will happen with his data and so on. This point has come up in several public consultation meetings before. The White paper that has been published is in English and incredibly a large document, but there is a need to publish it in Hindi and other languages for more people to access it. If we are talking about privacy and following the recent judgement, then it was important that we publish this Whitepaper in at least 2 languages. Talking about notice, it should also be made available in a couple of other languages without just keeping its access for the elite and educated class. There have been many conversations on how we will fix the notice and the need to simplify it further. Possible solutions could be radial boxes, pre-ticked boxes which will let the user see that what personal data being given, what processing is going to take place and then give them the option to opt out of it at a later stage. There is this misconception that consent is the only basis of processing data. There are 2-3 various ways through which you can have different grounds of processing. Now Right to be forgotten has application across the internet. It is my ability to go and get that data set deleted from a public domain, but it is a fact that the data once published will never get erased or deleted."

Anand Krishnan
Senior Analyst-Policy – Data Security Council of India