{"id":33921,"date":"2022-12-09T05:31:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T00:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=33921"},"modified":"2025-04-20T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T21:21:18","slug":"digital-india-bill-to-replace-it-act-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/digital-india-bill-to-replace-it-act-2000\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital India bill to replace IT Act, 2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>What\u2019s in today\u2019s article?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Background (Need to replace IT Act, Key Proposals of Digital India Act)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>About Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (Key Provisions)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central government is considering regulating a wide gamut of online platforms including social media sites, e-commerce entities, fact-checking portals and artificial intelligence (AI)-based platforms under a fresh legislation, which is expected to replace the <strong>Information Technology Act, 2000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Background of Digital India Bill<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Central government will release the draft <strong>Digital India Bill<\/strong> for public consultation by the end of this month.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>Digital India Act will subsume the Information Technology Act 2020<\/strong>, which according to experts and government officials need a <u>revamp owing to changing internet scenarios<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The proposed bill, alongside the <strong>Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2022 <\/strong>whose draft was released recently, will contribute to the evolving framework which is light on regulation, safeguards consumer rights and catalyzes innovation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the key aspects of Digital India Bill?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The government is considering a departure from the long-held understanding of \u2018<strong>intermediaries<\/strong>\u2019 on the Internet \u2013 sites that typically act as a platform for users to access services on the Internet.\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Present Scenario \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Under the Information Technology Act, 2000, there is no classification of intermediaries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Proposal \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <u>new law will prescribe different kinds of intermediaries because their regulation has to be different<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>Intermediaries will be bucketed as social media platforms, e-commerce platforms, AI platforms, fact-checking platforms etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>New Regulator for Internet \u2013<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The new <u>Bill is also expected to prescribe a new regulator for the online space along the lines of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) or the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The new law is also expected to introduce penal consequences for violations, and prescribe governing provisions for emerging technologies like the <strong>metaverse<\/strong> and <strong>blockchain<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Once finalized, the <u>Bill will impact Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon, Meta, Amazon and Apple, among others<\/u>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has been deliberating on various aspects of digital personal data and its protection, and has formulated a draft Bill, titled \u2018The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022\u2019.<\/li>\n<li>The purpose of the draft Bill is <u>to provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognizes both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process personal data for lawful purposes<\/u>.<\/li>\n<li>The Bill frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (<strong>Digital Nagrik<\/strong>) on one hand and the obligations to use collected data lawfully of the Data Fiduciary on the other hand.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is Information Technology Act, 2000?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Information Technology Act, 2000 is the primary law in India for matters related to cybercrime and e-commerce. The act was enacted to give legal sanction to electronic commerce and electronic transactions, to enable e-governance, and also to prevent cybercrime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Q2) What is the meaning of Data Fiduciary?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A data fiduciary is an entity or individual who decides the means and purpose of processing personal data. E-commerce companies, for instance, would fall under this definition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital India act aims to replace the IT Act 2000 and regulate online platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":33922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-mains-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}