The Indian government on August 3, 2023, introduced theDigital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023in the parliament. While it’s much needed for the country to have a data protection law protecting the right to privacy of citizens, rather than giving companies and the government a free...
doi:10.9785/cri-2023-240103INDIARIGHT to be forgottenPERSONALLY identifiable informationThe article offers information about the comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) framework in data protection, the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP Bill) adopts a si...
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 would ease storage, processing and transfer standards for major global tech companies like Google, Meta and Microsoft, as well as local firms seeking international expansion. The legislation allows companies to export data sourced from India, except to co...
(As of August. 2022) with stark criticism from stakeholders that believed the bill would give the government too much power over the data of its citizens. New legislation was approved by the president of India in August 2023. India’sDigital Personal Data Protection Act(DPDP)is anticipated to...
After six years in the making, India now has a data protection law after the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 was passed by the parliament and received the president’s assent on August 11. While the law is yet to go into effect, companies will have to start working on...
India's omnibus data protection legislation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("India's DPDPA"), was passed and gazetted in August 2023. Notably, it shares several common concepts...
20/2016 and offer a comparison with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU), which was referred to heavily during the drafting of the PDP Law. Personal Data Under The PDP Law Article 1(1) of the PDP Law defines “personal data” as data regarding ...
the government introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, which aims to address the gaps identified in the previous bill and align India’s data protection laws with global standards. The DPDP Act, 2023, establishes a comprehensive legal framework for the processing of per...
Evolution of the Privacy legal framework in India:India did not have a specific privacy law on personal data protection and the use of personal data has been governed as per the provisions of the Information Technology Act 2000. There are other laws namely Indian Penal Code 1860...
The Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act (ICDPA) was signed into law in late March, 2023, by Governor Kim Reynolds, and goes into effect on January 1, 2025. The ICDPA applies to businesses controlling or processing the personal data of at least 100,000 Iowa consumers or 25,000 consumers with...