Personal Data Protection Bill to be tabled in Parliament in current session

The government is all set to table Personal Data Protection Bill – which proposes to put restriction on use of personal data without explicit consent of citizen – in the current session of Parliament.

As per the proposal, hefty penalties on entities found violating privacy of users will be imposed.

“The Data Protection Bill will be tabled in the current session,” an IT ministry official told PTI.

The draft of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 – which is based on the recommendations of the government-constituted high-level panel headed by Justice B N Srikrishna – restricts and imposes conditions on the cross-border transfer of personal data, and suggests setting up of Data Protection Authority of India to prevent any misuse of personal information.