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Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023: How much data does it really protect?

By Andrew McCollum

An Indian villager looks on as other puts his hand on a ‘Slap Pad’ for recording of fingerprints during the data collecting process for a pilot project of UIDAI in the village of Chellur, on April 22, 2010.

Synopsis

The latest version of the data protection bill continues to persist with some of the troubling shortfalls of the earlier iterations. A consistent criticism of many iterations of India’s data protection bills has been the exemptions they grant to state authorities/instrumentalities.

Exactly a year to the date on which the government withdrew the Data Protection Bill, 2021 (DPB 2021), it introduced the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (DPDPB 2023). Assuming that the intention is to ensure its passage during the ongoing Monsoon session of the Parliament, one can expect its core elements will remain unchanged, even if some clauses may be amended during the course of parliamentary discussions — to whatever extent

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