Beni Chugh & Srikara Prasad (Dvara Analysis) &
The Information Safety Council of India[1]
Consumers’ non-public information has transform central to how monetary provider suppliers (FSPs) (i.e., regulated entities and intermediating provider suppliers) ship their products and services. Processing non-public information helps FSPs higher assess shoppers’ wishes and supply extra amenable monetary products and services. Alternatively, FSPs can put shoppers’ protection in danger from other varieties of damage in the event that they procedure information with out ok information coverage safeguards.[2] The possibility of those dangers breeds distrust and apprehension about FSPs and monetary products and services amongst shoppers until they’re reassured of protection.
Many information coverage frameworks supply a collection of rules that should information suppliers against enforcing safeguards. Alternatively, those rules are incessantly summary and hard to place into follow. Extra importantly, those rules don’t information suppliers against enforcing safeguards in some way that earns the shoppers’ consider.
To handle those gaps Dvara Analysis, with the Information Safety Council of India (DSCI), co-developed two privateness handbooks directed at FSPs within the insurance coverage and banking sector. The handbooks lend a hand FSPs put in force information coverage in a customer-centric approach all over the information lifecycle, together with in legacy techniques. The handbooks construct on international information coverage frameworks and very best practices, and inputs from FSPs, information coverage professionals, and different stakeholders within the insurance coverage and banking sectors.
Whilst the handbooks are set within the context of insurance coverage and banking sectors, the rules are extensively acceptable to all FSPs that interface with shoppers and procedure their non-public information. Those privateness handbooks supply 4 the most important inputs to FSPs. They:
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Supply a collection of rules and detailed motion issues for FSPs
to put in force information coverage safeguards at each and every level of the buyer adventure and knowledge lifecycle in some way that builds shoppers’ consider. -
Provide a ready-to-use self-assessment tick list that FSPs can use
to spot the gaps of their framework and know how they may be able to deal with them to raised conform to regulatory pointers and globally recognised information coverage rules.
The privateness handbooks, in conjunction with an summary of each and every guide, are to be had right here. We welcome comments from monetary sector suppliers, information coverage and knowledge safety practitioners, and visitor coverage professionals against bettering the guide
[1] The authors from the DSCI staff come with Varun Sen Bahl (affiliated with Nasscom on the time of newsletter), Anisha Koshy (affiliated with DSCI on the time of newsletter), and Anand Krishnan (affiliated with the CSSF India Cyber Program on the time of newsletter).
[2] Information Justice Lab, Information Hurt Document, 2020, https://datajusticelab.org/data-harm-record/.
