Data Protection Bill likely to be placed in Parliament in winter session: Official

HYDERABAD: The Centre may introduce the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 in the coming winter session, a senior official of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said here on Friday.
S Gopalakrishnan, Joint Secretary, MEITY, also said the Ministry has appointed a committee headed by the Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan to make recommendation on how to handle non-personal data.
“Possibly the Bill will go to the Parliament in this winter session. The draft bill is ready. A Regulator will be appointed a few months after the Bill is passed,” Gopalakrishnan told reporters at an event organsied by Indian School of Business (ISB).