India: Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill to house
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Introduction of Personal Data Protection Bill to house
The Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) was introduced to the House (Lok Sabha). It includes a comprehensive data protection regime and measures with regard to content moderation. In particular, social media platforms can - under certain circumstances - be treated as publishers and can be held accountable for the content they host and will have to set up an office in India.
Original sourceScope
Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
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2019-12-11
under deliberation
2021-12-16
under deliberation