Highlights of the Data Protection Bill, 2019

INTRODUCTION While the citizens of the country are busy debating the issues, which have come across due to the Citizen (Amendment) Act, 2019, the government introduced a new bill in the Lok Sabha called The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“Bill”) on December 11, 2019. The Bill has been a topic of debate because even […]

PDPB 2019: To-dos for companies collecting private data

Most organisations collecting private data of individuals are following the development of data protection legislation in India very keenly. It was anticipated that the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“PDPB 2018”) would be enacted into law in early 2019. However, PDPB 2018 underwent certain changes and was tabled before the parliament as the Personal Data […]