The central government's proposed Digital Data Protection Bill is anticipated to be introduced during the forthcoming 2023–2024 budget session.
The measure has been made available to the public for comment while it is still in the draught stage.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a piece of legislation that outlines the rights and responsibilities of the citizen (Digital Nagrik) on the one hand and the duty of the Data Fiduciary to use gathered data legitimately on the other. The following data economy ideas form the foundation of the law.
The first rule is that organisations must only collect and use personal data in ways that are legal, protect the data of the individuals involved, and are transparent to individuals.
The second tenet of purpose and storage limitation is that personal information should only be used for the purposes for which it was collected and should only be kept for as long as is required to fulfil those purposes.
The third data minimization principle is that only the individuals who are necessary for the defined purpose should gather data.
The fourth principle is Data Protection and Accountability, which states that the person collecting the data is responsible for processing it and that the data will be maintained securely with no unauthorised access or breach of personal information.
The correct storage of obtained personal data is the sixth principle. The personal information of the individual is correct and maintained up to date with reasonable effort. that the person will be able to view his or her data, as well as remove or alter it as necessary.
The mandatory reporting of violations and the fair, transparent, and equitable adjudication of fiduciary duty violations by a data protection board constitute the sixth principle.
Personal data protection laws have been based on these principles in many different jurisdictions.
A more complex view of personal data protection, which balances individual rights, the public interest, and ease of doing business, particularly for startups, has emerged as a result of the actual application of such legislation.
In order to bring about a comprehensive legislation, the Union government withdrew the Data Protection Bill from the Monsoon Session of Parliament on August 3, 2022. The joint parliamentary committee that reviewed the initial form of the 91-section law made 88 recommendations, according to Union Telecom and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. As a result, the government decided that it had "no choice" except to fully remove the original legislation.
The government released a new draught of the Digital Data Protection Bill for public comment in November.
There are currently over 76 crore active internet users (Digital Nagriks), and it is predicted that number will reach 120 crore in the upcoming years.
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