Expectations vs Realities of Information Privacy and Data Protection Measures

Prof. (Dr.) Indranath Gupta is Professor at the Jindal Global Law School and Dean of Research at O.P. Jindal Global University, India. He is the Director of Jindal Initiative on Research in IP and Competition (JIRICO), and a Senior Fellow at the Jindal Institute of Behavioural Sciences (JIBS). He is currently the Jean-Monnet Chair- Academic Coordinator for the project ‘Multi-dimensional Approaches to the Understanding of the E.U. Data Protection Framework’. He has been also invited as a Jean Monnet Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence, Jean Monnet Centre for Intellectual Property & Management, Bournemouth University, UK. Prof. Gupta was earlier appointed as the research collaborator by the Università Bocconi, Milan, Italy, for a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme. He participated in a multi-jurisdictional project on Digital Era Competition: A BRICS View, whose report was published by the BRICS Competition Law and Policy Centre.Professor Gupta holds two LL.M. degrees (taught and research) from the University of Aberdeen, UK, and the University of East Anglia, UK, and a PhD from Brunel University, London. He also taught at the Brunel Law School during this PhD, which looked at the transnational influence of the US Supreme Court’s judgement in the Feist case in the framing of the Database Directive in the European Union. Prof. Gupta specialises in Technology Law and aspects of Intellectual Property Law. Over the years, he has offered courses such as Data Protection Law, Information Technology Law, Music and Copyright, and EU Law and Approaches to New Technology. He has contributed in reputed journals such as the European Intellectual Property Review, Journal of World Intellectual Property, International Journal of Law and Information Technology, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, Journal of Data Protection and Privacy, Economic and Political Weekly, and European Journal for Law and Technology. He has worked extensively with Springer on several book projects of all kinds, the latest being an in-process Major Reference Work titled ‘Handbook on Originality in Copyright: Cases and Materials’, currently available as a Living Edition on SpringerLink.

• 1. Capturing different discourse to Privacy.- 1.1. Setting the overview.- 1.2. An economic argument.- 1.3. COVID-19 pandemic.- 2. Data Protection and Competing Interests.- 3. Conceptualizing Data Protection Provisions.- 3.1. Basic concepts in data protection.- 3.2. Right to be forgotten.- 3.3. International Transfer of Personal Data.- 4. Data Protection – Issues and Perspectives.- 4.1. Keeping Data Subjects’ Lens in focus.- 4.2. A Roundup of International Data Protection Developments outside EU.- 5. Importance of identifying Consent.- 5.1. Understanding Consent and its elements.- 5.2. Consent in different sectors: Health research and allied services.- 5.3. Placing consent in the midst of future technology.-6. Interface of Data Protection and Other Areas of Law.