Governments abroad look to model on India’s ‘landmark’ data lawNew Zealand's Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster said he takes a 'keen interest' in the privacy impacts of new and emerging technologies ...
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill gets President's assent, becomes lawThe government is now likely to move on to framing and rolling out the rules and regulations of the DPDP Bill.
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill passes the Lok Sabha floorThe passage of the bill in the lower house brings India on the penultimate step of the country finally having its own digital data privacy ...
Experts flag revised Data Bill’s silence on generative AI toolsAs deep fakes created by gen AI tools become more rampant, several experts flagged the need for the DPDP to address this. Further, with ele...
Editors Guild for house panel review of Data Bill, tags fearsThe Guild has raised concerns about the independence of the Data Protection Board (DPB), which is proposed to be constituted by the DPDP Bi...
Hope Opposition will participate in discussion on all bills, including DPDP: MoS IT Rajeev ChandrasekharThe government is expected to table the Digital Personal Data Protection(DPDP) bill in Parliament on Thursday.
Digital Personal Data Protection bill to be introduced in Lok Sabha on ThursdayThis is the government’s second attempt at introducing the privacy bill after an earlier version, called the Personal Data Protection bill,...
Government may turn off ‘continuous consent’ for apps in Digital India billA clause to this effect may be introduced in the Digital India Bill, the draft of which is to be released soon for public consultation, off...
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill to go on Lok Sabha floor this monsoon sessionFollowing the withdrawal of the older version, the ministry of electronics and information technology had in November released an updated d...
Cabinet approves Digital Personal Data BillThe Union Cabinet has approved draft of Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2023 for tabling it in the upcoming monsoon session of...
New Data Bill to retain age of minors as those below 18Companies will be required to obtain explicit parental consent before processing any data belonging to this user group.
USIBC: Country-wise talks to pick trusted geographies slow"The DPDP Bill clearly shifted the debate from a very broad, regulatory heavy, and prescriptive regime to a narrow, more open, light-touch ...
Give companies two years to comply with new personal data rules, say expertsThe provisions contained in the draft DPDP Bill of 2022 are aimed at making it a “behavioural law” which will bring in a “cultural shift in...
IAMAI terms draft data protection bill as industry-friendly; seeks clarity on implementation timelinesThe Internet and Mobile Association of India, urged the government to clearly indicate reasonable timelines by which the various provisions...
Trusted jurisdictions tag on those nations which respect rights of data principal: Rajeev ChandrasekharIn the draft of the DPDP Bill of 2022, released for public consultation on November 18 this year, the IT ministry had said that the data of...
Social platforms flag age-gating fears in MeitY’s IT rules meetSeek age-sliding instead of one threshold of 18 for parental nod for all data processing.
Govt mulls exempting early stage startups from Data Protection Bill provisions"This may be for a limited time period in cases where they may be doing some kind of data modelling etc to develop their solution," the sou...