
Govt can access personal data under certain circumstances
Live MintExceptional situations, such as threats to national security, pandemics or natural catastrophes, will allow the government access to personal information. Thus, the proposed data protection law will prevent any government from violating the privacy of its inhabitants in general, said Minister of State for Electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar. Certain organisations that the government has designated as data fiduciaries are excluded from a number of requirements, including disclosing information for the purpose of data collecting, under the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. Under the "Right to Information about Personal Data," the measure would exclude government-notified data fiduciaries from disclosing information about data processing to data owners. Some people worry that the draft DPDP Bill's prohibition on sharing unverifiable and inaccurate information with data handling organisations would stop users from using anonymizing software on social media and other online platforms.
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