Giving sweeping exemptions to the government biggest concern in data bill: Justice BN Srikrishna

Sweeping exemptions to the government in the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, is the concern, says Justice BN Srikrishna, a retired judge of the Supreme Court of India who headed a 10-member committee that released the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill in 2018.

In an interview, Srikrishna told ET’s Suraksha P that the latest draft is not how he had originally envisaged the bill and that data stored in physical format should also be included under the bill’s purview.