The DPDPA is an opportunity for governments to improve their data ecosystem and enable evidence-driven decision-making, transparency, and renewed accountability
The Act contains significant exemptions that allow the government and other government instrumentalities to exempt themselves from the application of the Act.
The bill now awaits the President s assent to be enacted as the country s first legislation that specifically addresses the safeguarding of a citizen s personal data.
While responding to a query in the Parliament over the mechanism of obtaining parental consent in regards to processing children s data in the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said that Digilocker can be used for the same
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a new law that will regulate the processing of personal data in India. It will be presented in Parliament on August 3rd, 2023.