Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw moved the bill in the Lok Sabha. The bill will now head to the Rajya Sabha, where the ruling coalition is short of the majority mark.
The bill, which was cleared by the union cabinet on July 5, aims to establish the comprehensive legal framework governing digital personal data protection in India
The feminine pronouns were used in the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. The bill Communications Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw introduces is to broadly recognise an individual’s right to protect personal data and also the need to process personal data for lawful purposes.
The much-awaited draft digital personal data protection Bill leaves many questions unanswered and many concerns unaddressed. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released the draft for public consultations before being introduced in Parliament. The key area of concern is that it gives the government sweeping powers to access personal data in the interest of […]
New Delhi: The government has raised the penalty amount to up to Rs 500 crore for violating the provisions proposed under the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 issued on Friday. The draft personal data protection bill in 2019 proposed a penalty of Rs 15 crore or 4 per cent of the global turnover […]