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Despite vigorous slogans from the Opposition, the Lok Sabha passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, on Monday through a voice vote.

Unless blanket exemptions granted to government agencies are removed, the new data protection law will not be meaningful

The bill will be tabled in the upcoming Monsoon session of the parliament that will begin on July 20 and continue till August 11.

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill was cleared during the union cabinet meeting, held earlier in the day.

A Parliamentary panel has held that the delay in the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 will have an adverse impact on the economy

Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, may not be ideal but is a step towards protection of personal data

Explosion of platforms like Google, Facebook and Microsoft, has created an uneven playing field as they piggyback on content created by newsrooms.

The Delhi High Court observed that WhatsApp is responding to the question raised by the Central Government, and thereafter adjourned the matter for March 1 for further hearing.

Panel chairperson and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said that "the panel is unanimous in its opinion that coercive action can be suggested to the government against the e-commerce company".