Digital Personal Data Protection Bill

The government will investigate a claim that WhatsApp accessed the microphone of smartphone users while the phone was not in use, Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Wednesday. In a…

The centre is likely to notify a "negative list" of countries to which data pertaining to Indian users cannot be transferred, a top lawmaker told ET. This change is being mooted in the upcoming draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection…

The parliamentary standing committee has given its go-ahead to the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, which will now be introduced in the upcoming second half of the budget session of Parliament, electronics and information…

Anyone below the age of 18 has been defined as “children” in the upcoming Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill. The government will "review” this definition one year after enactment of the Act, a senior official told ET. “We spoke…

Around 88% of respondents in India believe their data would be inherently safer if it could be stored locally, but 90% said they would prefer a global provider to store the data, revealed the findings of NASDAQ-listed Cisco’s 2023 Data…

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Technology infrastructure companies that are building digital storage facilities or data centres in India are petitioning the government to mandate local storage of user data as well as "reciprocity" in cross-border data flows, industry…

The government must follow a phased implementation once the recently drafted Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, becomes law, industry bodies have said. Its provisions should kick in gradually so that entities have adequate time to…

India’s largest telecommunication companies Reliance Jio and Bharti Airtel as well as digital payments major Paytm are opposing the centre’s move to allow transfer of personal data of Indians to ‘trusted geographies’. They are asking for…

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