PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION BILL (India)

Author: Rashmi Grover

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Publisher: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu

Journal / Book: NO&T Asia Legal Review No.20 (February, 2020)

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Background
With an aim to protect the privacy of individuals with respect to their personal data and to govern the relationship between individuals and entities processing personal data, the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“PDPB”) was introduced in the Parliament of India in December 2019 and is currently being reviewed by the joint parliamentary committee. The joint parliamentary committee is due to submit its report in February 2020. The PDPB is largely based on the data protection bill submitted to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology by the Srikrishna Committee, however contains some significant changes, as set out below.

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