Internet Freedom Foundation asks Parliament panel on Personal Data Protection bill to conduct public consultation

BENGALURU: Internet Freedom Foundation, a digital rights organisation, requested the Joint Parliamentary Committee, which was recently formed for a thorough review the proposed Personal Data Protection Bill, to undertake a public consultation.

The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 has been sent to a Joint Parliamentary Committee post its introduction in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.

“To ensure that the public be given the opportunity to provide their comments on the Bill, we ask that the Committee undertake a public consultation. But that’s not it, we also asked that these responses be pro-actively circulated with all members of the committee and made public if possible,” IFF said in a statement.