Personal Data Protection

Ajit Balakrishnan offers a thinking person’s guide. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   Last week, I was sitting in the rear seat of my car, deeply immersed in my Kindle, reading......

Data protection bill protects govt from action taken in good faith

The data protection bill introduced in Parliament on Thursday enables the government "to call for information" from data protection board, data collecting entities or intermediary, and safeguards......

Govt withdraws Data Protection Bill; plans new 'set of legislations'

The government on Wednesday withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill from Lok Sabha and said it will come out with a 'set of fresh legislations' that will fit into the comprehensive legal......

Govt changed data protection bill into money bill, charges Congress MP

Hours after Congress leader Manish Tewari on Thursday said the government might get the Digital Data Protection Bill classified as a money bill, Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw refuted the......

Inside India's new Digital Personal Data Protection framework

A new law that defines how companies should process users' data came into force with the President giving assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act passed by Parliament in the......

India's personal data protection bill may threaten innovation, growth: USTR

The US on Thursday raised concerns over India’s Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill and draft non-personal data governance framework, claiming these could potentially threaten innovation and......

E-commerce, tech firms call for clarity on Personal Data Protection Bill

The biggest fear many of the e-commerce firms have is the possible requirement to change business models overnight, which would drastically increase costs as well as disrupt businesses.......

Will data protection Bill finally see daylight?

After the first draft of the Bill was submitted under a committee chaired by Justice B N Srikrishna in 2018, there were objections raised by businesses, especially on the broad restrictions on......