data bill

The government on Friday released the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection bill for public consultation, asking stakeholders to submit their views on the draft by December 17. “The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a…

After months of consultations and deliberations on various issues such as data localisation, penalties for a data breach, and regulation of non-personal data, the government will do away with the data localisation requirement in the revised…

The government will propose to allow transfer of data and its storage in “trusted geographies” in the revised draft of the data protection Bill, doing away with the data localisation requirement proposed in the earlier version, people privy…

The previous draft of the personal data protection bill, withdrawn earlier this year, had invited significant criticism from companies for its strict rules on storing Indians’ data within the country. Now, minister of state Rajeev…

NEW DELHI : Five opposition members of the parliamentary committee reviewing the data protection bill have filed dissent notes in the panel’s final report citing a failure to quantify penalties and “unbridled"…