Data Protection Bill revision: Startups could be exempted from some provisions

To ease compliance burden for the country’s startups, they could be exempted from certain provisions of the revamped data protection Bill, The Indian Express has learnt. The new Bill could also have a regulatory sandbox for startups, which would allow them to operate for a certain period of time without having to adhere to provisions of the Bill.

The Data Protection Board, an adjudicating body proposed to enforce the provisions of the Bill, will be incharge of categorising entities that could claim these exemptions after an assessment of the number of users and volume of personal data they process, among other factors, it is learnt. These entities — expected to be identified as “small data fiduciaries” —