With the intent to grant greater control over personal data and maintain a balance between the protection of privacy and data-driven innovations, India enacted the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 (DPDPA) in August 2023. The government is also likely to notify rules prescribing specific compliances under the DPDPA over the next few months. With this background, here are five key steps that over the top (OTT) and content streaming platforms should proactively consider to ensure compliance with the DPDPA.
Aakash is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the Mumbai office. Aakash has advised several clients on corporate and commercial transactions, including private and public mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, private equity investments, and routine advisory on all aspects of Indian corporate and foreign investment laws. The Economic Times and Spencer Stuart recognised Aakash as one of the 40 under Forty Business Leaders for 2016.
Aakash Bajaj is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution practice group. He is a registered Advocate on Record with the Supreme Court of India.
Aakash has vast and rich experience in diverse area of laws including constitutional law, laws relating to environment, mining, succession and inheritance, shareholder disputes and other commercial laws. He regularly advises clients on complex litigations and multi-jurisdictional disputes before various Courts in India as well as domestic arbitral tribunals and international arbitral tribunals (both institutional and ad hoc).
Haigreve Khaitan is a Senior Partner and leads the Firm’s Corporate, M&A and Private Equity practices at the Firm. He is an elected member of the National Executive Committee of the Firm, which is responsible for the Firm’s strategic growth and development. He is also one of the co-founders of the Firm’s Mumbai office. He advises companies, boards of directors and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments, corporate governance, corporate restructuring and other corporate and securities laws matters.
Nidhi Killawala is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the NCR office.
Nidhi has advised clients on corporate and commercial transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, private equity, venture capital, foreign investment laws and general corporate law advisory.
Prateek Bhandari is a Counsel in the Energy, Infrastructure and Resources practice group in the Delhi NCR office. Prateek has extensive experience in commercial laws, corporate laws, infrastructure projects and mergers & acquisitions in oil & gas, renewable energy, airports, railways, roadways, urban infrastructure and ports sectors.
Dibyanshu is a Partner in the Energy Infrastructure and Resources practice group in the New Delhi office. Dibyanshu specialises in advising clients on corporate commercial laws, mergers & acquisitions and infrastructure projects with specific focus on energy sector.
Tanu Banerjee is a Partner in the Corporate and Commercial practice group in the Mumbai office. She focusses on technology, media, entertainment, corporate and commercial laws.