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India News: Lok Sabha has passed the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, which includes provisions to prevent misuse of personal data by online platform

EGI has highlighted six primary concerns in the bill, including concerns over democratic process and lack of exemptions for journalistic activities.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Nishikant Dubey came down heavily at the Congress party  and exposed them thread bare when he told the august house

Amid protests from some opposition members, the Lok Sabha has passed the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023.

The Editors Guild of India has expressed concerns about certain "draconian powers" in the Press and Registration of Periodicals Bill, which seeks to replace a 19th-century legislation. The Guild is calling for the bill to be referred to a parliamentary select committee. Those areas flagged by the Guild include the expansion of powers of the Press Registrar; restrictions on editorial freedom and the potential for misuse of the bill to deny "the right to bring out news publications ...

The Guild is concerned about the expansion of powers of the Press Registrar, the new restrictions on citizens to bring out periodicals, the continuation of power to enter premises of news publications, the vagueness inherent in many of the provisions, and the ambiguity surrounding power to frame rules that can have adverse implications on press freedom, a statement by the Guild said.

The Guild has raised concerns about the independence of the Data Protection Board (DPB), which is proposed to be constituted by the DPDP Bill tabled in Parliament last week.

Editors Guild of India on Sunday expressed concerns over certain provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill

Participants in a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday criticised the role of the US and the EU in Bangladesh's elections, terming it a "double standard". Speaking at the discussion titled 'Bangladesh on way to the elections: assembly, violence and right to vote' organized by the Editors Guild of Bangladesh, Professor Mizanur Rahman Khan, former chairman of National Human Rights

Cathy Repola, national executive directors of the Editors Guild, IATSE Local 700, has been reappointed to the board of directors of the Motion Picture…