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05/08/22 06:04 AM IST

Govt withdraws data protection Bill to bring revamped, refreshed regulation

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  • The government has withdrawn the Personal Data Protection Bill from Parliament as it looks to come up with a “comprehensive legal framework” for regulating online space including separate legislation on data privacy, the overall internet ecosystem, cybersecurity, telecom regulations, and harnessing non-personal data for boosting innovation in the country.
  • The Joint Committee of Parliament on the Personal Data Protection Bill had submitted a 542-page report with overall 93 recommendations and 81 amendments to the Bill in December 2021.
Recommendations by JCP 
  • Broader data protection: Expanding its mandate to include discussions on non-personal data, thereby changing the mandate of the Bill from personal data protection to broader data protection
  • Regulation of social media: Changes on issues such as the regulation of social media companies.
  • Trusted hardware: Using only “trusted hardware” in smartphones, among other things.
  • Data protection in line with SC judgment: The new Bill will incorporate the broader ideas of data protection as recommended by the JCP and will be in line with the Supreme Court’s landmark judgment of 2017 in which it held privacy as a fundamental right.
  • Social media as content publishers: The JCP’s report also proposed that social media companies that do not act as intermediaries are to be treated as content publishers, they become liable for the content they host.
  • Non-personal data: The JCP had also recommended including non-personal data in the Bill. In its most basic form, non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information.
Source- Indian Express 

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