Flipkart terms passage of data protection bill ‘good move’

Flipkart is on the “same page” with the federal government on the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 which was cleared by Parliament, a senior official of the e-commerce main stated on Thursday. Parliament on Wednesday permitted the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill that introduces a number of compliance necessities for the gathering and processing of non-public knowledge and provisions for as much as Rs 250 crore penalty for any knowledge breach.

The authorities expects to implement Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 inside 10 months.

“Obviously I think this is a very good move. We all are on the same page and as it has been just passed we are reviewing it and normally for example as I mentioned we have all the data in India. So, this is most important for us.

“So, we are going to proceed to form of have a look at the Bill, learn this and ensure that if there are enhancements wanted … we are going to proceed to try this,” Flipkart’s Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Rajneesh Kumar told PTI on the sidelines of an event here.

The bill provides for how companies should process users’ data. It allows companies to transfer users’ data abroad and gives the government power to seek information from firms and issue directions to block content on the advice of a data protection board appointed by the Union government.

The government has been in the process of introducing a standalone data protection legislation since 2018.

The invoice applies to the processing of digital private knowledge in India, the place the non-public knowledge is both collected in digital type or in a non-digitised format and subsequently digitised.

The invoice defines ‘private knowledge’ broadly to incorporate any knowledge about a person who’s identifiable or in relation to such knowledge. ‘Digital private knowledge’ is outlined to imply private knowledge in digital type.

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