Data Protection Board: Chance to bring regulatory agility or a miss hit?

One common pattern in the technology sector, especially in consumer-facing businesses, is how these services scale up quickly in the absence of any regulatory oversight. This results in situations where it becomes difficult to undo unforeseen negative consequences of such businesses because of various factors, including heavy user dependence and difficulty in changing already-scaled business models.

Forced Aadhaar-based authentication of customers by private entities, data mining across industries in India and the unrestricted growth of the gig economy in the absence of social security measures are just a few such examples.