This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy:
JPC adopts draft report on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) has adopted its report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 after around two years of deliberations. It includes a number of recommendations that might improve the final law, including an acknowledgment that the digital economy cannot take precedence over the protection of citizens' rights. The report is expected to be tabled before the end…
This is a rundown of last week’s news updates on Privacy:
Joint Parliamentary Committee on data protection bill to comb through over 100 drafting changes
The Joint Parliamentary Committee tasked with ironing out a number of issues with the personal data protection bill will now look at over a 100 legislative drafting and cosmetic changes to be made to the bill, with one of them being the change of name from the personal data protection bill to the data protection bill.…
Full text of the proposed bill can be accessed here.
Data Localization
This is one of the more stringent requirements of the Bill, and distinguishes it from data protection laws in other jurisdictions.
The Bill requires certain categories of personal data, which the central government may notify as critical personal data, to be processed only through servers or data centers located within India (See Section 40).
However, this obligation is not absolute, and allows for transfer of certain personal…
The Draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill was released on July 27, 2018 by the Justice Srikrishna Committee, along with its report on Data Protection in India. This Bill incorporates many features of the EU-GDPR modified according to Indian stand on the privacy of individuals. Although not as stringent in its requirements or as widely applicable as the GDPR, the Bill imposes largely similar obligations on the recipients of an individual’s data. The salient features of the Bill include:…