India's data-protection bill to be tabled in Parliament

By Freny Patel ( July 20, 2023, 05:50 GMT | Insight) -- India's long-awaited national data-protection legislation is among the 21 new bills to be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament that commences today and concludes on Aug. 11. If passed by both houses of Parliament, India will finally have its first privacy legislation that has been six years in the making since the Supreme Court of India in 2017 said that privacy was a fundamental right. The reworked version of the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, is viewed as business-friendly and could improve trade relations when it comes to cross-border data transfers. However, there could be a clash with data processing by artificial intelligence platforms unless certain provisions of the draft bill pertaining to consent are modified.India's long-awaited national data-protection legislation is among the 21 new bills to be tabled in the monsoon session of Parliament that commences today and concludes on Aug. 11. If passed by both houses of Parliament, India will finally have its first privacy legislation that has been six years in the making since the Supreme Court of India in 2017 said that privacy was a fundamental right....