Tag: Safety

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was abandoned after years of development. A "full legal framework" to safeguard people's data lacks precise timetables and guiding principles. The federal government removed the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill) from Parliament during the 2022 monsoon session. "Big tech" refers to US-based IT giants. The union government recently abandoned the third draught of the PDP Bill, which followed the 2018 Justice B N Srikrishna Committee suggestion. The union minister for electronics and information technology's statement in parliament that a thorough legal framework is being worked on is not convincing (JPC). Given the US government's backing for multinational digital technologies or "big tech," it's probable that pressure from outsid...