Data Protection Bill

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The current e-commerce policy must take steps to give a level-playing field to e-commerce and physical stores.(Representational Image: Facebook - Flipkart))

AA Edit | E-com policy initiative welcome

The proposed draft is likely to address the concerns of small traders and ensure data security

22 Aug 2023 12:06 AM

In the current Monsoon Session of Parliament, the government aims to pass the fundamentally flawed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. (Photo by rawpixel.com Freepik)

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy

The snooping saga using the Pegasus spyware is still pending adjudication in the Supreme Court.

30 Jul 2023 12:17 AM

Tabled first in 2019, and followed up with multiple revisions, the bill seeks to provide an overarching framework of technology regulations. (Image by rawpixel.com in Freepik)

AA Edit | Build consensus on Data Bill

RTI activists contend that the law will dilute the Right to Information Act

07 Jul 2023 12:05 AM

Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. (PTI)

Centre takes back Bill on personal data, plans a new law

The Bill sought to establish a Data Protection Authority in the country for the protection of digital privacy of individuals

04 Aug 2022 6:41 AM

The panel recommended that all social media platforms, which do not act as intermediaries, be treated as “publishers”. (Photo: PTI/File)

Parliamentary panel recommends more accountability of social media platforms

It also recommended widening the scope of proposed data protection legislation

17 Dec 2021 7:22 AM

“The protection of personal data is a very important subject globally,” Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar told a news conference after a cabinet meeting.

Modi cabinet clears data protection bill, will soon be tabled in parliament

The Personal Data Protection bill was drafted by a panel headed by a former Supreme Court judge and submitted to the government last year.

05 Dec 2019 11:19 AM

MEITY and its bureaucracy could argue that 600 submissions are a lot to process, and not all the comments are relevant to the process.

Wider debate needed on major changes in data protection law

The Data Protection Bill is going to be profoundly important in India’s tech policy landscape, going forward.

30 Aug 2019 4:26 AM

The government had constituted a committee of experts on data protection, chaired by Justice (Retd) BN Srikrishna to study various issues relating to data protection and come out with the Data Protection Bill,’ Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said. (Photo: ANI)

Comprehensive legislation on data privacy under formulation: Prasad

He said the Centre has taken several measures including regularly issuing alerts about threats affecting mobile phones and countermeasures.

03 Jul 2019 6:00 PM

'If anyone wants to take the data, they should take it on a sample basis,' Payments platform Paytm chief Vijay Shekhar Sharma said speaking at the TiE India Internet Day 2019. (Photo: blog.paytm.com)

India's data should be 'stringently domiciled': Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm, in the past too, has supported the view that critical data like financial transactions need to be stored locally.

25 Apr 2019 1:00 PM

The IT Ministry has received more than 400 responses from companies, industry bodies and government departments on the draft personal data protection bill, and will take stock of suggestions before its proposed introduction in Parliament, according to a senior official. (Photo: Pixabay)

IT Ministry gets over 400 responses on draft personal data protection bill

Some suggestions were around the costs surrounding mandatory localisation or storage of data, that the bill proposes.

11 Oct 2018 4:31 PM

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