Govt withdraws Data Protection Bill, 2021, will present new legislation

'The bill will soon be replaced by a comprehensive framework of global standard laws for contemporary and future challenges and catalyse PM Modi's vision of India Techade,' says MoS IT

The Centre on Wednesday withdrew the long-awaited Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019 to replace it with a new bill with a ‘comprehensive framework’ and ‘contemporary digital privacy laws’.

The PDP bill was first introduced in Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019. The bill was referred to Joint Parliamentary Committee, which tabled its report in Lok Sabha on December 16, 2021. The committee proposed a single law for dealing with both personal and non-personal datasets. The report was also under dispute as it suggested moving towards complete localisation of data.

"The government will bring a set of new legislation for a comprehensive