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Indian Joint Parliamentary Committee adopts Report on Personal Data Protection Bill

On 16 December 2021, the Indian Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on the Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB) tabled its report in both Houses of Parliament, two years after the bill was first referred to the JPC. The PDPB constitutes India's firs…

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Cybersecurity regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
central government

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2019-12-11
under deliberation

The Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) was introduced to the House (Lok Sabha). It includes a com…

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…