An earlier version of the privacy bill, called the Personal Data Protection Bill, was withdrawn last year in August by the union minister of electronics and information technology Ashwini Vaishnaw.
Following the withdrawal of the older version, the ministry of electronics and information technology had in November released an updated draft of the privacy bill, which was rechristened to Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill.
On November 16, ET had first reported the draft of the new data bill, which will not be called the Digital Personal Data Protection bill, will allow the storage and transfer of data in “trusted” jurisdictions, which would be defined by the government from time to time.
Earlier this month, the Union Cabinet approved the DPDP Bill which paved the way for a voluntary disclosures of data breaches by companies while also providing an alternate dispute resolution mechanism.
The draft of the DPDP Bill released in November last year received more than 21,000 stakeholder comments. The IT ministry consulted some 100 organisations, of which 48 were non-government stakeholders, government officials had then said.
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