INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER IN THE LIGHT OF SCHREMS II

The third and last panel of Day 1 of Week 2 was titled "International Data Transfer in the Light of Schrems II". It was moderated by Kavitha Gupta, Senior Corporate Counsel Juniper Networks and saw participation from

Aannaaand Deshpande, Director- Data Privacy & Protection, MasterCard; Rajesh Kumar, Group Manager, Privacy & Data Protection Office, Infosys; Ritesh Bhatia, Founder, Cybercrime & Forensics Investigator, Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Consultant, V4Web Cyber Security; and Jaipat S. Jain, Partner Lazare Potter Giacovas & Moyle LLP. Rajesh Kumar said, "The need of the hour is to promote a pragmatic approach to stemming national security concerns by unlocking the benefits of cross-border data transfers, and balancing the privacy of individuals." Ritesh Bhatia said, "Given the increased frequency of data breaches, it's important that organisations follow the principle of data minimisation and implement techniques such as psudenymisation and anonymisation of data."