 | An opportunity to redesign draft data protection lawA modern privacy regulation must be a harm-based one. It must shift responsibility of privacy harms to data fiduciaries and processors. |
 | Significant controls to govt under data protection bill to hit investmentsThe Ministry of Electronics and IT has floated draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill 2022 and has invited comments on the same till January 2. |
 | Deadline for public comments on draft digital personal data protection bill till Jan 2: CentreThe draft DPDP proposed exemption only for government-notified data fiduciaries and data processing entities when it comes to data collection, sharing, and giving information around data processing. |
 | Govt mulls exempting early stage startups from data protection bill provisionsThe bill also proposes to remove a section from the IT Act which provides an option of compensation to individuals impacted by data breach. |
 | Data protection at government’s mercyThe new bill raises the penalty provisions for entities failing to protect individuals from data breaches from Rs 15 crore to Rs 250 crore. |
 | Draft bill on Digital Personal Data Protection skips 'Right to Privacy' in preamble, govt gets unrestrained powers: CUTSThe bill skips mention of the fundamental right to privacy in its preamble and narrows the scope of the law from data protection to digital personal data protection excluding non-personal data. |
| Many loose ends in new Personal Data Protection Bill 2022The new bill retains the exemptions to government and government agencies in the pretext of national security, and maintenance of public order. |
 | INTERVIEW | Not satisfied with JPC response on Personal Data Protection Bill: Justice SrikrishnaLast week, the Union government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019, which has been in the woods for five years. |
