Rs 250 crore penalty for breaches in new data bill tabled in Parliament
Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023 in the Parliament on Thursday. An older version of the Bill — which was five years in the making – had been withdrawn exactly a year ago. The new legislation aims to give people tighter control over the use of their personal information by businesses as it lays out strict conditions for data sharing, processing and storage.
It also recommends a ‘blacklisting’ approach in the transfer of data to other geographies. Data will flow freely to all jurisdictions except to countries that have been explicitly restricted. Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, said while introducing the Bill in the Parliament that it would provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises the rights of the individual, as well as the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes.
The Bill is likely to come up for a debate in Parliament on Monday and the government is hopeful that it pass in the current session. The Bill has suggested a penalty of up to Rs 250 crore for data breaches, which can go upto Rs. 500 crore based on the number of breaches.
It has called for the establishment of a data protection board. It has also introduced a new clause that allows a platform to be blocked if two or more instances of breach of provisions occur. Such advice-- to block will be given to the central government-- by the data protection board.Addresses industry concerns “A lot of public consultation has happened.
It is a very modern, forward looking bill. This bill must be enacted at the earliest because this practice of misusing and exploiting personal data must be put on a break. So every logic points to a good decisive debate in Parliament and the enactment of the law,” the
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