Bill On Personal Data Protection

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The USTR said patent issues continue to be of concern in India

'In the absence of any standalone trade secret legislation, there is little recourse for firms in the event of misappropriation of their sensitive information,' the report says

Parliament has to reconcile the twin challenge of protecting people not just from data fiduciaries, but also from the protector itself

House panel report on data protection Bill has many holes

Platforms as publishers; covering personal, non-personal data suggested

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This is for the sixth time the committee's tenure has been extended

Infosys co-founder was heading a committee on non-personal data protection bill, which had submitted its report to govt a few months back

Most respondents say Bill must provide for independent Data Protection Authority like GDPR. Current form allows for excessive govt intervention and it is unlikely DPA will function independently

Legislation that Parliament's Winter Session will take up next week wades into areas beyond ambit given to it, say experts.

Social media platforms that are not intermediaries should be classified as publishers, it has reportedly said.

Penalties in the earlier draft of the PDP Bill ranged from Rs 5 crore to Rs 15 crore, or 2-4 per cent of the worldwide turnover of the entity depending on the nature of the offence

Facebook and Twitter said they are studying the rules; Experts question compliance with PDP Bill

Opening up access to geospatial data is a welcome step

The draft of the bill, approved by the Cabinet in December 2019, proposes a penalty of up to Rs 15 crore and up to three-year jail term for company executives for violating privacy norms.

The body said mandating data sharing could reduce incentives to invest in the collection and processing of data

The committee has made a case for regulating non-personal data, defining it under three main categories- public non-personal data, community non-personal data and private non-personal data

Safeguards must be brought in to protect privacy

Fear that proposed provision will hamper investigation