digital personal data protection bill

The Data Protection Bill has been prepared to protect citizens’ data, while not making it harder for companies to function in India. (Representational image: Shutterstock)The IT ministry is most hopeful about the Digital Personal Data…

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The story so far: During Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s U.S. state visit, cooperation on technology emerged as a prominent talking point and yielded some of the most substantive outcomes, according to Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra.…

The draft of the much-anticipated Digital India Bill to govern emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing is likely to be opened for public consultation within the next fortnight, senior officials told…

(This story originally appeared in on May 26, 2023)India and the EU have decided to harmonise regulations on technology and jointly work on rules and standards for the broader industry, including Big Tech and top social media giants. The…

NEW DELHI: The government has decided to send a notice to WhatsApp on the issue of unsolicited spam calls to its users from unknown international numbers, with minister of state for IT Rajeev Chandrasekharsaying that the onus of user…

Lately, WhatsApp has been under scrutiny for various reasons. (Image: Reuters)The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, has said that the Indian government will probe into claims of WhatsApp…

‘The IT Ministry will act on any violation of privacy even as new Digital Personal Data protection bill #DPDP is being readied,’ Minister of State Rajeev Chandrasekhar said.  | Photo Credit: REUTERS Minister of State for Electronics and…

The parliamentary standing committee has given its go-ahead to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which will now be introduced in the upcoming second half of the budget session of Parliament, electronics and information…

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill outlines the rights and duties of a citizen and the fiduciary's obligations to use collected data lawfully. (Photo: Shutterstock)MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar said so after a netizen tweeted that he was…