After two years of deliberations, a parliamentary panel submitted its recommendations on India's Personal Data Protection Bill. Let us see what implication it may have on the privacy rights of citizens
The 30-member Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, headed by BJP MP PP Chaudhary, presented its much-awaited report recommending several changes to the draft bill.
Some of the proposed changes to the Bill include having a single Data Protection Authority (DPA) for personal and non-personal data and provisions for localization and cross-border flows of data.
MPs including Manish Tewari, Mahua Moitra, Jairam Ramesh, and Derek O’Brien gave dissent notes to the committee. Congress MP Manish Tewari rejected the Bill in its entirety, citing an inherent design flaw.
The contentious Clause 35 highlighted by Tewari gives wide-ranging powers to the government to exempt any of its agencies from the purview of the data protection bill for purposes of ‘security of the state’, ‘friendly relations with foreign states’ and ‘public order.
While the Bill seeks to promote a free and fair digital economy, it increases the compliance burden on startups with its burdensome rules on data storage and transfer.
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