The ministry of electronics and IT has floated a draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2022 and has invited comments on the same till January 2...

Data protection bill and bills to amend banking act, insolvency law and competition commission act have not been included for legislative business...

The bill also proposes to remove a section from the IT Act which provides an option of compensation to individuals impacted by data breach...

The draft DPDP has proposed exemption only for government notified data fiduciaries ...

The bill proposes to exempt government notified data fiduciaries from sharing details of data processing with the data owners under the 'Right to Information about personal data'...

A joint parliamentary committee report expressed deep reservations about the effectiveness of data anonymisation, which, apparently, precludes re-identification of the individual...

The older Bill mandated monitoring, testing and certification of hardware devices by the Data Protection Authority...

According to experts, the proposed law continues to give government a free pass to ride roughshod on an individual’s right to data privacy...

The draft proposes to set up a Data Protection Board of India, which will carry on functions as per the provisions of the bill...

‘It’s a matter of a few days before the revised bill is uploaded for consultation’...