Parliamentary standing committee has approved data protection bill: Ashwini Vaishnaw

The parliamentary standing committee has given its go-ahead to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which can now be launched within the upcoming second half of the price range session of Parliament, electronics and data expertise minister Ashwini Vaishnaw mentioned on Thursday.

“Want to share some good news that the parliamentary standing committee on IT and communications, which is the committee that deals with this subject. Before this is introduced to Parliament, they have in advance examined it and they have given us a big thumbs up,” Vaishnaw mentioned in a digital tackle to the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum.

The authorities launched the draft invoice for public session in November final 12 months.

“The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a legislation that frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (Digital Nagrik) on one hand and the obligations to use collected data lawfully of the Data Fiduciary on the other hand,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology mentioned in an explanatory notice put out with the draft invoice.

Vaishnaw, additionally the Union minister for railways and communications, mentioned tech rules have develop into “reasonably complex” globally with totally different nations attempting out various things. “It is at a (moment) if we don’t do it right, today, then we might get into trouble, which we didn’t anticipate,” he mentioned.

He mentioned two members of parliament of one other nation instructed him in Davos they wished their nation had the “common sense” whereas forming tech rules, which India has proven.

Vaishnaw mentioned the chief government of a worldwide newspaper had instructed him that the world will begin utilizing India’s template globally.The minister additionally mentioned that India has additionally develop into a strategic location to arrange manufacturing bases to diversify and never rely on only one nation.

“So many CEOs I met at Davos, most of them have already committed to expanding their supply-chain base in India. Or if they are not present in India, they are looking at setting up their supply-chain bases here,” mentioned Vaishnaw. “At least three of them, who didn’t have their presence in India, said that by May and September 2023, they’ll do their groundbreaking ceremonies in India.”

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