Digital Personal Data Protection Bill likely to get approval from Cabinet today; here's what it is
Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 on Wednesday and once it gets the approval, the Bill will be tabled in the upcoming Parliament session," a senior government official requesting anonymity told Indian Express. Last year in December, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw had said that the government expects to get the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill and Telecommunication Bill passed in Monsoon session of Parliament.
Earlier in April 2023, the Centre told the Supreme Court that a new data protection bill is ready and will be introduced in the Monsoon session of Parliament in July, as the apex court heard a matter related to privacy concerns of social media users. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is legislation that frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (Digital Nagrik) on one hand and the obligations to use collected data lawfully of the data fiduciary on the other hand.
The Bill, which seeks to govern and safeguard the use of personal data, sets out the rights and duties of users, and the obligations on businesses. The bill is based on six principles of the data economy of which the first one talks about the collection and usage of the personal data of citizens of India.
The collection and usage of personal data should be lawful, must be protected from breach and transparency should be maintained. The second principle talks about data collection exercise that must be for a legal purpose and the data should be safely stored till the purpose is served.
The next principle talks about data minimization which says that only relevant data should be collected of individuals and serving the pre-defined purpose should be the only aim. Speaking of the fourth principle, The fourth principle is regarding
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