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Faustian bargain? In data privacy bill, Centre needs your data for ‘well-defined’ use, shields its own

By Andrew McCollum

In the recent Lok Sabha session Ashwini Vaishnaw, IT Minister of India presented Digital Personal Data Bill Protection 2023 for consideration and passing.

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Amid the haze of uncertainty in the year 2023, a disconcerting question hovers above us: is it truly 2023, or are we moving towards the dystopia of George Orwell’s 1984? Questions like these arise when discussions around personal data and its protection take place. Like in India, as we are halfway through the passage of the Data Protection Bill, 2023.

Faustian bargain — a pact whereby a person trades something of supreme moral or spiritual importance, such as personal values or the soul, for some worldly or material benefit, such as knowledge, power, or riches. – Britannica Encyclopedia The Lok Sabha on August 7, 2023 passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (the Bill) even as opposition leaders opposed it — sparking diverse reactions. While some hail it as a necessary step

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