{"id":8150,"date":"2022-11-19T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2022-11-19T02:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8150"},"modified":"2025-03-29T01:19:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T19:49:32","slug":"draft-digital-data-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/draft-digital-data-protection-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft digital data protection Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Draft digital data protection Bill:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The first draft of the Bill was presented by an expert panel headed by Justice B.N. Srikrishna in July 2018.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The new Bill now being called the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, has provisions on \u2018purpose limitations\u2019 around data collection, grounds for collecting and processing personal data, relaxation on cross-border data flows, and imposes significant penalties on businesses for violating provisions of the Bill.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cross-border data flows:<\/strong>\u00a0The proposed legislation offers significant concessions on cross-border data flows, in a departure from the previous Bill\u2019s contentious requirement of local storage of data within India\u2019s geography.\n<ul>\n<li>According to the new draft, the Centre will notify regions to which data of Indians can be transferred.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Penalties:<\/strong>\u00a0The draft also proposes to impose significant penalties on businesses that undergo data breaches or fail to notify users when breaches happen.\n<ul>\n<li>Entities that fail to take \u201creasonable security safeguards\u201d to prevent personal data breaches will be fined as high as Rs 250 crore.<\/li>\n<li>If an entity fails to notify users about a data breach, the fine could go as high as Rs 200 crore.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Data localisation:<\/strong>\u00a0The new Bill would relax data localisation requirements and allow data flows to trusted geographies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Exemptions:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>National security-related exemptions<\/strong>\u00a0have been kept intact in the new Bill.<\/li>\n<li>The Centre has been empowered to notify such exemptions in the interest of sovereignty and integrity of India, security of the state, friendly relations with foreign states, maintenance of public order or preventing incitement to any cognisable offence relating to any of these.<\/li>\n<li>The government could also exempt certain\u00a0<strong>businesses from adhering to provisions of the Bill\u00a0<\/strong>on the basis of number of users and the volume of personal data processed by the entity.<\/li>\n<li>This has been done keeping in mind\u00a0<strong>startups<\/strong>\u00a0of the country who had complained that the previous version of the Bill was too \u201ccompliance intensive\u201d.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/media\/editor_images\/2022\/11\/19\/11\/34\/11\/637871db45f9d205ae28abbd_PV.JPEG\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Data Protection Board:<\/strong>\u00a0The Bill also proposes to set up a Data Protection Board to ensure compliance with the Bill.\n<ul>\n<li>It can impose a penalty of up to \u20b9500 crore if non-compliance by a person is found to be significant.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/digital-personal-data-protection-bill-2022-released-india-govt-meity-comments-8275939\/lite\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 aims to protect personal data of 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