DNA Explainer: What is Personal Data Protection Bill and its impact on social media - 542-page JPC report is clause-by-clause examination of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 and contains 81 recommendations and 150 drafting correction
What stood out:
Business purpose requests: Private entity to private entity mandatory data sharing requests are not considered to be in the scope of the committee’s recommendations.
NPD Legislation: The Committee of Experts has proposed that the Non Personal Data (NPD) framework become the basis of a new legislation for regulating NPD.
Sovereign purpose requests exempt: the Non Personal Data Authority will not adjudicate the validity of data requests under Sovereign purpose (national security, law enforcement etc).
Entire raw data databases exempt: The committee has limited data requests to specific data-fields, and no requests can be made for entire databases.