Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

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Draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 released on 10 December 2019 introduced key changes from its draft version which was released last year on 27 July 2018 (referred to as PDPB 2018). Post approval by the Union Cabinet, the India Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDPB 2019) was introduced in the Lok Sabha (Parliament) by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology, Mr. Ravi Shankar Prasad, on December 11, 2019.

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, has three broad differences from its draft version which are the :

  1. Changes to select provisions
  2. Insertions of additional requirements and
  3. Deletions from the earlier version of the bill
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