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LEGAL UPDATES

  • May 12th, 2021: "Norway | Datatilsynet fined the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee"

• The Norwegian data protection authority (Datatilsynet) fined the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committee and Confederation of Sports. Penalty amount: NOK 1.2 million (approx. €124,430).
• It has been fined for disclosing the personal information of 3.2 million Norwegians. The data remained available online for 87 days after an error in connection with testing a cloud solution.
• Datatilsynet outlined that testing could have been carried out by processing synthetic data, or by using fewer personal data, and therefore held that there was no legal basis for the testing and that there was no legal basis for the testing and the principles of legality, days minimisation and confidentially had also been breached.
• The original penalty of NOK 2.5 million (approx. €249,300) has been reduced to NOK 1.2 million (approx. €124,430).

Compiled by: Aditi Agrawal
                     (Faculty of Law, The ICFAI University, Dehradun)

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  • May 12th, 2021: "Big Data Revolution in the Supreme Court - The Big Data Revolution"

• Digital court hearings have changed the way we think of lawsuits and courts since March 2020. What was once thought to be impossible has now become the only way to obtain justice. This decade will be revolutionary and pivotal for the Indian judiciary as it moves towards greater technology.
• On a daily basis, all of us who use the internet generate two and a half quintillion bytes of data. This is said to grow by 50% in a year or more, doubling every two years. Huge data collections are referred to as big data.
• These data sets are in the order of exabytes in size. This data flood that is raging through our economies, businesses, academia and the government is being collected and analyzed in massive quantities.
• Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing are merely instruments at the disposal of lawyers to augment their expertise and decision-making process. These technological advancements have led to this revolution in the supreme court and have led to the advancement of justice.

Compiled by: Dhwisha Bhatt
                     (Symbiosis Law School, Hyderabad)

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