PbD
Practice Areas

Data Privacy & Protection

Navigating the intersection of AI systems and data protection law. From GDPR Article 22 to Privacy-by-Design mandates under India's DPDP Act 2023.

GDPR & AI Compliance

  • Article 22 Automated Decision-Making rights and limitations
  • Right to Explanation for algorithmic decisions
  • Data Minimization principles for training datasets
  • Purpose Limitation and model re-training compliance

Privacy-by-Design (PbD)

  • Differential Privacy techniques for model training
  • Federated Learning architectures for sensitive data
  • Homomorphic Encryption for privacy-preserving computation
  • Anonymization standards under India DPDP Section 7

Cross-Border Data Transfers

EU Adequacy Decisions

Post-Schrems II compliance strategies. Navigating Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and Transfer Impact Assessments (TIAs) for AI training data.

India DPDP Localization

Section 16 cross-border transfer provisions. Consent requirements for international data flows and "trusted geographies" under pending Rules.

China PIPL Compliance

Critical Information Infrastructure (CII) designation impacts. Mandatory security assessments for cross-border transfers under CAC regulations.

Landmark Precedents

CNIL v. Google (France, 2020)

€50M fine for lack of transparency in automated ad profiling. Established that AI systems must provide "meaningful information" about decision logic.

GDPR Art. 13-14 Violation

Clearview AI v. ICO (UK, 2022)

£7.5M penalty for unlawful facial recognition database. Court held that web scraping for AI training violates data protection principles without lawful basis.

GDPR Art. 6 Lawful Basis

Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (SC, 2017)

Foundational judgment establishing Right to Privacy as fundamental right. Implications for AI surveillance and profiling under Article 21 of Indian Constitution.

Constitutional Privacy

Privacy Compliance Intelligence

Comprehensive data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) for high-risk AI systems under GDPR Article 35 and India DPDP Section 11.

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