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The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill is a new law that will regulate the processing of personal data in India. It will be presented in Parliament on August 3rd, 2023.

DPDP is intended to regulate all forms of personal data collected, processed and stored in the digital format and is also designed to apply to entities outside India

Effective data protection requires an accountability-based, rather than consent-based, framework. Draft Data Protection Bill falls short

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has prepared a draft Bill, titled the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 and has invited feedback from the public. The draft Bill sets out the rights and duties of the citizen and the obligations of the Data Fiduciary to use the collected data lawfully.

The technology used by them is ‘Artificial Intelligence and Facial Recognition Powered Solution for Telecom Sim Subscriber Verification—ASTR’

CCG’s recommendations cover deemed consent, graded consent for children, obligations of companies, DPBI‘s independence, etc.

A professor has sued her varsity's use of facial recognition for attendance and pay, but will workplace surveillance only be encouraged by upcoming laws?

The Data Protection Bill, 2022 fails the proportionality standard adopted by the Supreme Court in Puttaswamy I and II, IFF concluded.

How would withdawing consent work if one's information has been used under the 'deemed consent' provision in the data protection bill, 2022?

Speakers at our discussion on the bill said that lack of limitations on purpose and storage, among various other provisions, impact user rights and privacy