Parliamentary standing committee has approved data protection bill: Ashwini Vaishnaw

The parliamentary standing committee has given its go-ahead to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which will now be introduced in the upcoming second half of the budget session of Parliament, electronics and information technology minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday.

“Want to share some good news that the parliamentary standing committee on IT and communications, which is the committee that deals with this subject. Before this is introduced to Parliament, they have in advance examined it and they have given us a big thumbs up,” Vaishnaw said in a virtual address to the Nasscom Technology and Leadership Forum.