Centre Releases Draft Of Revised Data Protection Bill
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19 November, 2022 08:51 am IST
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The government on Friday released the draft of a new comprehensive data protection bill for public view, months after withdrawing a previous bill. India had in early August withdrawn the personal data protection bill. The much-debated bill introduced in 2019 had alarmed big tech firms such as Google and Facebook parent Meta.
A key point of the revised draft is a penalty of Rs 250 crore if the personal safety of users is compromised.
"Seeking your views on draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022," Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw made the announcement in a tweet.
The draft was out three months after the Government withdrew an earlier version that had triggered a pushback from Big Tech and sections of the civil society.
The new draft, now called the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, has provisions on “purpose limitations” around data collection; specified grounds for collecting and processing of personal data; penalties ranging from Rs 50 crore to Rs 500 crore and a Data Protection Board as the adjudicating body to enforce the provisions of the Bill.
The new draft offers significant concessions on cross-border data flows, in a departure from the previous Bill’s contentious requirement of local storage of data within India’s geography. According to the new draft, the Centre will notify regions to which data of Indians can be transferred.
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