The latest data protection bill doesn't recognise the right to privacy, provides no checks against its breach by government agencies, provides for an unformed executive-controlled board for oversight.
Draft Bill misses key provision of data processing that truly empowered the government to implement the Digital Personal Data Protection Act
The draft bill prescribes a penalty of up to ₹250 crore for failure of a company to take reasonable security safeguards to prevent personal data breach.
Despite being the IT powerhouse of the world, lack of digital legislation has put the country's cyber defence under threat.
The data protection bill which was first introduced in the Parliament in 2019, aimed to tighten the scrutiny across social media platforms.
Panel recommendations call for companies to cough up 2% of global turnover as penalty for minor offences and 5% for major contraventions
India’s draft data privacy bill may not be everything that stakeholders hoped for, but experts say there is a need to pass the bill.
There is an urgent need to understand some best practices which organisations within India can adopt to mitigate data privacy risks.
It isn’t the Wild West, but India’s legal framework offers little protection in case of data theft, say experts.
