Digital Personal Data Protection Bill gets President's assent, becomes law
Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill has been granted assent by President Droupadi Murmu, making it into law. The permission was granted by the President on August 11 and it was notified in the gazette the same day. India, which is one of the largest data markets in the world, will finally get its privacy law with the President’s assent.
The government is now likely to move on to framing and rolling out the rules and regulations of the DPDP Bill. Officials had earlier told ET that the framing and rolling out of the administrative rules and regulations under the DPDP Bill would be done within the next six to ten months. Minister for electronics and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Twitter, “DPDP Bill becomes an Act.
Received Hon'ble President's assent.” Calling it the “First big cyber law milestone” for what is being dubbed as India’s techade, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Twitter “And the #DPDPBill is now law… next milestone is #DigitalIndiaAct — coming soon.” The administrative regulations to be rolled out will be kept simple and there will not be a multitude of layers of rules, union electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told ET last week. “The implementation structure will be entirely digital and work on the rules and regulation framework has already started. That will be rolled out in the coming months.
In our constitutional and legal system, the rules are always in line with the law. They cannot go beyond and have to be within the four walls set by the law,” Vaishnaw had said. The rules will be implemented in such a way that the continuity of business is maintained and there will be ample time given for the rollout of the regulations, the minister of
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