Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Personal data is only ‘half protected’ by new data bill
When is a bill only a “half bill”? The answer — when it just tables good intentions, like the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill which has been put in the public domain by the ministry of electronics and information technology. The bill includes a bland provision for transfer of personal data outside India to countries or territories notified by the government on terms and conditions to be specified. The assumption here is that countries “friendly” to India and hopefully having data protection laws, at least as robust as India’s, would be thus notified. At present, the uncertainty around the method to be adopted for notifying countries, contrasts starkly with the “good practice,” helpfully transparent manner, in which the section on “Obligations of Data Fiduciaries” is drafted, with supporting examples from real-life situations, to help a “Digital Nagrik” understand how the safeguards would actually work.
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