The Indian government, on August 4, 2022, withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 from the parliament. Though no significant reason was given by the government, the Minister of IT, Ashwini ...

Ashwini Vaishnaw, the IT minister of India, resubmitted an updated data privacy bill in the lower house of the Indian parliament on Thursday, months after introducing its last draft and the abrupt ...

New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A Parliamentary panel has held that the delay in the enactment of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 – which was withdrawn by the government in August 2022 for further ...

Six years after the Indian Supreme Court recognised a fundamental right to privacy, the country finally has comprehensive data protection legislation in the form of the Digital Personal Data ...

I write on behalf of Human Rights Watch in response to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s invitation to submit comments regarding the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 ...

The world is changing its pace in the blink of an eye. The digital landscape is rapidly evolving, and undoubtedly, one thing that has caught everyone’s attention in the past few years is data.

ET decodes what the regime will mean for diverse groups, explains the staggered implementation of provisions and traces the ...

Among its contentious clauses is one that grants blanket exemption to central investigative agencies on the grounds of national security. India’s Supreme Court is currently deliberating a petition ...

This content has been created by the Finextra editorial team with inputs from subject matter experts at the funding sponsor. India’s journey towards a dedicated privacy law started with the Puttaswamy ...

The Data Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the winter session of the Parliament last December. Considered the Indian equivalent of European Union’s landmark General Data Protection Regulation ...

The initial draft of the bill was introduced in November last year, and after several rounds of public consultation, a second draft was prepared, which underwent inter-ministerial discussions As per ...

(New York) – The Indian government should amend its proposed data protection law to protect people’s privacy instead of enabling unchecked state surveillance, Human Rights Watch said today. The ...