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The European Union data protection laws will cover large tech companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook that use personal data as an advertising goldmine, as well as firms like banks and also public bodies. (Photo: Pixabay)

IT Ministry gets over 400 responses on draft personal data protection...

Some suggestions were around the costs surrounding mandatory localisation or storage of data, that the bill proposes.

11 Oct 2018 11:01 AM GMT

The European Union data protection laws will cover large tech companies like Google, Twitter and Facebook that use personal data as an advertising goldmine, as well as firms like banks and also public bodies. (Photo: Pixabay)

Modi cabinet clears data protection bill, will soon be tabled in...

The Personal Data Protection bill was drafted by a panel headed by a former Supreme Court judge and submitted to the...

5 Dec 2019 5:49 AM GMT

Those arrested are Vijay Shekhar Sharmas woman secretary, her husband Roopak Jain and another Paytm employee Devnedra Kumar. (Photo: blog.paytm.com)

India's data should be 'stringently domiciled': Vijay Shekhar Sharma

Paytm, in the past too, has supported the view that critical data like financial transactions need to be stored locally.

25 April 2019 7:30 AM GMT

Ravi Shankar Prasad said the campaign has become a peoples movement. (Photo: ANI)

Comprehensive legislation on data privacy under formulation: Prasad

He said the Centre has taken several measures including regularly issuing alerts about threats affecting mobile phones...

3 July 2019 12:30 PM GMT

MEITY and its bureaucracy could argue that 600 submissions are a lot to process, and not all the comments are relevant to the process.

Wider debate needed on major changes in data protection law

The Data Protection Bill is going to be profoundly important in India's tech policy landscape, going forward.

29 Aug 2019 10:56 PM GMT

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Parliamentary panel recommends more accountability of social media...

It also recommended widening the scope of proposed data protection legislation

17 Dec 2021 1:52 AM GMT

Union Minister for Railways Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks in the Lok Sabha. (PTI)

Centre takes back Bill on personal data, plans a new law

The Bill sought to establish a Data Protection Authority in the country for the protection of digital privacy of...

4 Aug 2022 1:11 AM GMT

In the current Monsoon Session of Parliament, the government aims to pass the fundamentally flawed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill. (Photo by rawpixel.com Freepik)

Manish Tewari | Build legal framework for intel to safeguard privacy

The snooping saga using the Pegasus spyware is still pending adjudication in the Supreme Court.

29 July 2023 6:47 PM GMT

Tabled first in 2019, and followed up with multiple revisions, the bill seeks to provide an overarching framework of technology regulations. (Image by rawpixel.com in Freepik)

AA Edit | Build consensus on Data Bill

RTI activists contend that the law will dilute the Right to Information Act

6 July 2023 6:35 PM GMT

Fresh capital will help Flipkart further grow its e-commerce marketplace in India as the worlds second-largest internet market begins to recover from the COVID-19 crisis, Flipkart said. (Photo | Facebook - Flipkart)

AA Edit | E-com policy initiative welcome

The proposed draft is likely to address the concerns of small traders and ensure data security

21 Aug 2023 6:36 PM GMT