"Why the seven principles?"

The principles of the Indian Privacy Code, 2018 provide a summary aimed at furthering the understanding of a model, citizen law on data protection, surveillance and interception. Through the #SaveOurPrivacy Campaign we hope to invite endorsement of this effort to build a credible basis to this draft law through debate and discussion while committing ourselves to certain core values which we believe derive from a variety of constitutional and expert texts.

Please remember, the Indian Privacy Code, 2018 is a working draft that will become better in time to fully articulate the seven principles we have listed below.

"How were these principles created?"

The seven principles of the #SaveOurPrivacy campaign are built off rigour, debate and the best global practices adapted to India. We have referred to the Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013 which was drafted over a series of roundtables and inputs conducted by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. This has been analysed within the framework of the influential report of the Justice A.P. Shah Committee of Experts and submissions by multiple lawyers to the Justice Srikrishna Committee of Experts.

Additionally the Indian Privacy Code, 2018 is a synthesis of Supreme Court judgments, including the landmark judgment in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy vs Union of India (2017) 10 SCC 1 and best practices from international texts such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. This includes the right to explanation on algorithmic decision making, reducing the power of black box systems etc.

Who has drafted the Indian Privacy Code and the



We see further, because we stand on the shoulders of giants.

As a testament to this metaphor the Indian Privacy Code, 2018 builds off on an incremental process. It takes its foundation and inspiration from the Privacy (Protection) Bill, 2013 which was drafted over a series of roundtables and inputs conducted by the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore. To update and to make it's scope comprehensive it has been drafted by distilling 7 privacy principles from various constitutional and expert texts. This has been done by a team consisting of (alphabetical listing): Apar Gupta, Gautam Bhatia, Kritika Bhardwaj, Maansi Verma, Naman M. Aggarwal, Praavita Kashyap, Prasanna S., Raman Jit Singh Chima, Ujwala Uppaluri, Vrinda Bhandari.





"Can I comment on these principles?"

Yes, if you have thoughts on how data protection and privacy can be secured in a better way for people please send us an email at email hidden; JavaScript is required . Please note the technical functionality for in-line, word by word annotations is available only for the actual text of the Indian Privacy Code, 2018 (if you prefer PDF click here).

The 7 privacy principles are also available in the following Indian languages beyond English due to the support, time and skills of volunteers. Please treat them as works in progress. Each such version is hosted on Google Docs with the ability for comment to ensure others to suggest changes and edits. Please do volunteer your times and skills to create more of them by emailing us at email hidden; JavaScript is required