New Data Protection Bill drops 4 contentious clauses

The new draft Data Protection Bill has dropped four clauses from the earlier version regarding which the Big Tech firms as well as startups had expressed serious reservations and said that if government went ahead with them, businesses would face major disruption.

Accordingly, regulation of hardware and devices, localisation of data with retrospective effect, the need to seek regulatory nod everytime cross-border flow of data is required and penalty on global turnover for any violation, do not figure in the new draft.