Government releases Digital Personal Data Protection Bill draft

The government on Friday released the draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection bill for public consultation, asking stakeholders to submit their views on the draft by December 17.

“The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a legislation that frames out the rights and duties of the citizen (Digital Nagrik) on one hand and the obligations to use collected data lawfully of the Data Fiduciary on the other hand,” the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in an explanatory note put out with the draft of the data bill.