Bill On Personal Data Protection

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India is the second-most affected country when it comes to data broker breaches, and more than 1.8 crore (18.7 million) personal records of Indian citizens were compromised

The companies will be required to get parental consent before processing any data belonging to 'children'

Nasscom said the clause on cross-border data flow should recognise a range of transfer mechanisms

The proposed legislation should also clarify that in the event of conflicts with sectoral rules and regulations

As a series of data hacks, sale or ransom calls spook organisations in India, here is a list of dos and don'ts for personal data protection

MeitY to come up with all rules of the bill before tabling the bill in the parliament: MoS IT

The government is expecting to get Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and Telecommunication Bill passed in Monsoon session of Parliament, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday. While speaking at Google For India event, the IT and telecom minister said another bill on Digital India Act will be also floated in a month for public consultation. The minister said Digital Data Protection Bill and Telecommunication Bill would be passed in Parliament in July-August. He said under Telecommunication Bill, the government will be coming up with light touch regulation with focus on user's protection.

Over 70 eminent citizens, including former judges, officers have written to MPs to express their concern regarding the proposed DPDPB, 2022

The arguments against a personal data privacy law are spurious. India needs robust data protection laws to enable growth without breaches of privacy

'Real process of openness' and listening to feedback in preparing legislation, he says

MeitY on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection law, in the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018

Governance through trusts will help balance the concerns over data sovereignty and its economic potential

Raises concerns about independence of data protection board under protocols in the present draft

What do unique terms in the data protection bill mean?

The govt came out with a revised version of the Personal Data Protection Bill. While finer points of the Bill are being debated, let's examine the key terms used in it that should be known by us all

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India has so far stayed out of a group of 87 countries, including the US, European Union, China, and Japan that are negotiating trade-related aspects on e-commerce since December 2017

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection bill has skipped "Right to Privacy" in the preamble and provides unrestrained powers to the government, advocacy group CUTS International has claimed. CUTS said that the draft weakens the regulatory, supervisory, and enforcement architecture by replacing the previously proposed data protection regulator with a board that will be directly in control of the government. "Moving away from its previous version, the bill skips mention of the fundamental right to privacy in its preamble and narrows the scope of the law from data protection to digital personal data protection excluding non-personal data, which is rather desirable. In doing so, the bill takes away the categorisation of personal data, especially sensitive personal data, thereby painting all personal data with the same regulatory brush," CUTS said in a statement. The preamble of the draft Personal Data Protection Act 2018 mentioned of "right to privacy" as "a fundamental right and it

The draft Digital Personal Protection Bill, 2022, which has been put up for public consultation on Friday, finds mention of the two pronouns.

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