‘Will work with industry on DPDP law’

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NEW DELHI : The government will consult the industry before implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) bill to ensure a smooth rollout roadmap, minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said. In an interview, Chandrasekhar said the government is open to the industry’s suggestion for an extended time frame but stressed that the new law will curb the exploitation of user data and make it costly for those who violate rules. Edited excerpts: This is an important fundamental law that has been put into place, and there will be a few more things that we will do down the road very quickly that will complete the global standards cyber law framework for this trillion-dollar digital economy, which is our goal.

The law is going to do two things. One, it is going to put a firm, decisive, unambiguous break on the practice of misuse and exploitation of personal digital personal data, which has been going on for some time and isn’t being done by some people in an organized manner. Two, it will result in a deep behavioural change in the relationship between platforms and the digital nagriks—individuals or businesses that deal with the platforms that are Indian—on how that data is taken and processed.

There are a number of obligations that are now placed by law on every platform that deals with the personal data of an individual or business, as the case may be, which are now codified as part of the law, including the most important obligation of not reaching that data or allowing anybody unauthorized access. There is clearly a need for the industry to transition from the current framework to this new framework that the law represents. We want it to be orderly.