Tag: Digital Personal Data Protection Bill

The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill in just 53 minutes without any substantive debate. While the government again stressed that the Bill provides enough safeguards for protection of personal data, concerns flagged about duties and penalties imposed on the data principle, the implications for Right to Information, and exemptions given to the government were not debated at any length.The one issue that received attention in the House was about independence of the regulator envisaged in the Bill, the Data Protection Board....