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India: Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill including user verification mechanism

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Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill including user verification mechanism

Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 to House (Lok Sabha), which includes the requirement of a voluntary user verification mechanism for social media intermediaries.

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Scope

Policy Area
Authorisation, registration and licensing
Policy Instrument
User identification requirement
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament

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2019-12-11
under deliberation

Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 to House (Lok Sabha), which includes the requir…

2021-12-16
under deliberation

On 16 December 2021, the Indian Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Personal Data Protection…

2022-08-03
rejected

On 3 August 2022, the Indian Government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) which had…

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producer / supplier
1
Type Private organisation
Economic activity platform intermediary: user-generated content
Category All

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user content: any format: hosting (any form)
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User identification requirement
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Regulated subjects
1

Policy change by business practice

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user content: any format: hosting (any form)