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The articles discusses the interaction between the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 and the Competition Act, 2002.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 was passed in the Lok Sabha earlier on August 7 despite serious concerns raised by many Opposition leaders, and now awaits the President’s assent.

MPs from AIMIM, BSP, BJD, Shiv Sena, TDP and YSRCP raised serious concerns with the Personal Data Protection Bill in its current form, passed in the Lok Sabha on August 7.

The Bill seeks to protect personal data, lays down the rights and duties of the user and defines obligations for the company or government agency collecting the data

The Opposition MPs have criticised the new draft of the Bill citing that it infringes on privacy and gives the government too many powers.

The court was hearing a plea filed by two students challenging the contract between WhatsApp and Facebook providing access to calls, photographs, texts, videos and documents shared by users.

The regulatory ambivalence around the Consent Manager framework in the data bill is disconcerting for several reasons laid out here.

When then Justice Dr. D.Y. Chandrachud had remarked in his judgment in the Supreme Court’s landmark right to privacy case in 2017 that “it would be appropriate to leave the matter for expert determination so that a robust regime for the protection of data is put into place”,

India's IT Ministry has released the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, the fourth iteration of the draft data protection law.

Indian govt reintroduces Digital Personal Data Protection draft bill, could allow some cross-border data transfer