Description

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 circumstan…

Scope

Policy Area
Content moderation
Policy Instrument
Content moderation regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
cross-cutting
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament

Complete timeline of this policy change

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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…