Digital Personal Data Protection Bill significant step to protect citizens’ rights, support innovation economy: Chandrasekhar

10 Aug 2023 Evaluate

Marking as an important move, Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill passed by the Parliament on August 09 is an important step to protect citizens’ rights and support innovation economy and governance. The Bill sets out norms for data processing digitally for firms, creates an adjudicatory mechanism for resolving disputes, and provides for the creation of a Data Protection Board of India.

A Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill was introduced in 2018 and tabled in 2019, after which it was referred to a joint parliamentary committee. The panel studied the bill for two years and presented its report and a modified PDP Bill in December 2021.

But in 2022, the government withdrew the PDP Bill, citing compliance-related reasons and came out with the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill after a few months. The cabinet approved the bill in July, clearing its way to be tabled in the ongoing monsoon session.

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