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Central government yet to notify selection panels for data protection boardFive months after establishing the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI), the government has yet to set up search-cum-selection committees ...
FSSAI tightens food safety net; states drive enforcement push in FY 2025-26India's food safety agency, FSSAI, inspected nearly four lakh establishments and tested over 1.6 lakh food samples in 2025-26. States playe...
Groundwork started for data protection board; online office software ready: IT Secretary KrishnanThe establishment of the Data Protection Board is on the fast track, with the government diligently paving the way for its formation. Proce...
South Korean leader calls for penalties over ecommerce data leakSouth Korea condemned Coupang’s vast data breach, overlooked for months, exposing personal details of over 33 million users. President Lee ...
Elon Musk’s X faces major scrutiny in France: Could algorithm violations lead to serious penalties?Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is currently under criminal investigation in France due to concerns about its algorithms. French auth...
Data usage and ground-rules: Inside India's new Digital Personal Data Protection frameworkWhile the new Digital Personal Data Protection Act seeks to establish a robust framework for the protection of personal data in the digital...
Lok Sabha passes Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023The Lok Sabha on Monday passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 which lays down the obligations of entities handling and pro...
ETtech Explained: The new Data Protection bill and what it means for youOnce approved by Parliament, the norms will apply to personal data collected within India from data principals online, and personal data co...
Rs 250 crore penalty for breaches in new data bill tabled in ParliamentNew clause allows a platform to be blocked if two or more instances of breach of provisions occur
Digital Personal Data Protection bill: government may pull content or block access to platformThe measure to block access has been introduced to give the government control on repeated instances of flagrant violations of the provisio...
Government releases Digital Personal Data Protection Bill draftThe comments and submissions by stakeholders on the data protection bill, however, will not be disclosed in public “to enable persons submi...
Companies may face hefty fines up to Rs 200 crore for mishandling dataThe Data Protection Board of India, slated to operate as an independent body and function as a "digital office," will be empowered to adjud...
New Data Bill draft to allow storage in trusted nationsCriminal penalties proposed on employees of companies involved in data breaches also will be scrapped in the new draft, which is likely to ...
Government to do away with data localisation requirement in new Personal Data Protection Bill draftThe government will propose to allow transfer of data and its storage in “trusted geographies” in the revised draft of the data protection ...
House panel moots penalties up to Rs 15 crore for data violationsThe provision, if it becomes a law, will pose a strong deterrent for social media giants and top tech companies such as Facebook, Instagram...
Higher penalty on cards for not reporting data breachesCompanies are taking reporting seriously, possibly due to low penalties which do not exceed Rs 1 lakh.
Government to set up Data Protection Authority to safeguard privacyThe government plans to set up a Data Protection Authority that will rule on issues around privacy invasion and impose penalties on violati...