white_paper_on_data_protection_in_india_171127_final_v2

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could be high compliance costs on data processors. 270 Concerns relating to enforceability of contracts and enforcement capabilities in India must also be taken into account while attempting to precisely allocate responsibility by identifying multiple actors in processing of data. On the other hand, there remains the possibility that the new law could be the catalyst for mature transactions in data processing and the market may adapt to the new norms, however specific they are. 6.3 Provisional Views 1. To ensure accountability, the law may use the concept of ‗data controller‘. The competence to determine the purpose and means of processing may be the test for determining who is a ‗data controller‘. 2. The need to define data processors, third parties or recipients depends on the level of detail with which the law must allocate responsibility. This has to be determined on an assessment of the likely impact of imposing obligations on processors and the compliance costs involved, amongst other things. 6.4 Questions 1. What are your views on the obligations to be placed on various entities within the data ecosystem? 2. Should the law only define ‗data controller‘ or should it additionally define ‗data processor‘? Alternatives: a. Do not use the concept of data controller/processor; all entities falling within the ambit of the law are equally accountable. b. Use the concept of ‗data controller‘ (entity that determines the purpose of collection of information) and attribute primary responsibility for privacy to it. c. Use the two concepts of ‗data controller‘ and ‗data processor‘ (entity that receives information) to distribute primary and secondary responsibility for privacy. 3. How should responsibility among different entities involved in the processing of data be distributed? Alternatives: a. Making data controllers key owners and making them accountable. 270 Dr. Detlev Gebel and Tim Hickman, ‗Chapter 11: Obligations of processors – Unlocking the EU General Data Protection Regulation‘, White & Case (22 July 2016), accessible at: https://www.ong>whiteong>case.com/publications/article/chapter-11-obligations-processors-unlocking-eu-general-dataprotection, (last accessed 29 October 2017). 50

. Clear bifurcation of roles and associated expectations from various entities. c. Defining liability conditions for primary and secondary owners of personal data. d. Dictating terms/clauses for data protection in the contracts signed between them. e. Use of contractual law for providing protection to data subject from data processor. 4. Are there any other views on data controllers and processors which have not been considered above? 51

. Clear bifurcati<strong>on</strong> of roles and associated expectati<strong>on</strong>s from various entities.<br />

c. Def<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g liability c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s for primary and sec<strong>on</strong>dary owners of pers<strong>on</strong>al <strong>data</strong>.<br />

d. Dictat<strong>in</strong>g terms/clauses for <strong>data</strong> protecti<strong>on</strong> <strong>in</strong> the c<strong>on</strong>tracts signed between them.<br />

e. Use of c<strong>on</strong>tractual law for provid<strong>in</strong>g protecti<strong>on</strong> to <strong>data</strong> subject from <strong>data</strong><br />

processor.<br />

4. Are there any other views <strong>on</strong> <strong>data</strong> c<strong>on</strong>trollers and processors which have not been<br />

c<strong>on</strong>sidered above?<br />

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