Data Protection Bill needs to be cleared soon as data theft has become a common crime, says Chief of Defense Staff Bipin Rawat

Chief of Defense Staff (CDS) General Bipin Rawat on Friday said the Data Protection Bill, tabled in 2019 in Parliament, needs to get cleared at the earliest as data theft has become a common crime in the virtual world.

Rawat, while inaugurating the 14th edition of ‘c0c0n’, an annual Hacking and Cyber Security Briefing, organised by Kerala Police, said there was a need to synergise the efforts of cyber security experts of various government departments in order to “secure our digital assets”.

The CDS said India doesn’t have a dedicated cyber security law and there was a need for a framework for managing virtual space at national level.