Data Protection Bill gets IT panel thumbs-up, says Ashwini Vaishnaw

According to sources, the Bill will shortly get presented to the Cabinet and is ready to get tabled in Parliament during the ongoing Budget session

The parliamentary standing committee on communications and information technology (IT) has given a “big thumbs-up” to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2022, as it will soon be tabled in Parliament, said Union Minister for Communications and IT Ashwini Vaishnaw on Thursday.

Released in November 2022, the draft is the third version of the much-awaited data privacy law of the country.

The Bill, which seeks to enforce the fundamental right to privacy of citizens, has the provision of penalties ranging up to Rs 250 crore for data fiduciaries on account of failing to take safeguards to prevent personal