Age of Consent for Children – Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2023
The DPDP Bill 2023 mandates that the age of children for whom parental consent is required as 18.
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The DPDP Bill 2023 mandates that the age of children for whom parental consent is required as 18.
Consent under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill is the key concept which establishes the relationship between Data Principals and Data Fiduciaries.
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Jyoti Sagar, a graduate in both Law and Economics from Delhi University, and a top up from Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania in ‘Mergers & Acquisition Programme’, is one of India’s top legal luminary. He founded two of India’s top law firms, Jyoti Sagar Associates (JSA) and K&S Partners who together have over 400 lawyers.
He has extensive experience in intellectual property, technology transfers, foreign investment and joint ventures, along with mergers & acquisitions. He has worked on several policy issues and has been associated with various committees of the Government of India and Chambers of Commerce.
He is currently serving as the Co-Chair – IPR Committee of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI).
S Chandrasekhar, in his 32 years of career, has a unique combination of experience in both Government and the Corporate sector. He played important roles in government and in leading private organisations; served initial 15 years as a bureaucrat in Government of India, including a stint in Singapore as a diplomat. Later, he worked for IT bigwigs like TCS, IBM and HCL. He was Principal Consultant to Ministry of External Affairs, GOI responsible for the rollout of India’s Passport  Seva Project.  He is deeply into Information Technology and dealt with it as a procurer in Govt of India, as an OEM (IBM), as a System Integrator (TCS) and as a Vertical Delivery Head (HCL). He was Group Director Government Affairs with Microsoft India for 9 + years until end 2021. His role involved interfacing with external and internal stakeholders driving technology and public policy related initiatives for Microsoft. He is currently MD & CEO of K&S Digiprotect Pvt Ltd. As an acknowledged expert on Technology Law and Policy, he represented the industry before Government on contentious and cutting-edge regulatory issues. A man of diverse talents, Sekhar speaks over 7 languages, has a Degree in Law, an Engineering Degree from Birla Institute of Technology, a PG Diploma in Cyber Law, a PG Diploma in Operations Management and an interpreter degree in Chinese. He is a Lead Auditor and Implementor- ISO-27001 (2022) and is qualified as a Lead Privacy Auditor (DSCI) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) by the International Institute of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Rakesh Maheshwari is a former Government Officer having worked for more than 35 years in Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) and retired as Sr. Director and Group Coordinator, Cyber Law and data Governance. He had also been Group Co-ordinator Cyber Security and CERT-In in the Ministry.  He is an Engineer in Electronics and Comm from Delhi College of Engg. He handled activities related to Information Technology (IT) Act, Cyber Security policies, Social media regulation, Personal data protection Bill, in various capacities including as Group Co-ordinator (GC) Cyber Law, GC Cyber Security, GC for CERT-In, GC for UIDAI and Designated Officer for section 69A of IT Act. He was closely associated with the drafting and implementation of various regulations governing India’s online space.
He has also been involved in the personal data protection Bill along with Sri Krishna Committee and have been involved in some of the JPC discussions after the bill was presented in the parliament in 2019 end. He has also worked on the latest DPDP draft Bill presently under discussion and likely to be introduced in the Parliament shortly. In his long stint of 28 years in STQC directorate, MeitY, he carried out various activities in related to Software Process Improvement (SW-CMM Trainer), quality Management (Certfied Quality Engineer and trainer), Information Security management (ISMS Lead Auditor and trainer), IT and IT enabled Service management and Process improvement relate activities. He has more than 1000 mandays of training and auditing experience. Was also involved in working with BIS on Privacy management Standard development.