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Rejected Personal Data Protection Bill including data residency obligations

On 3 August 2022, the Indian Government withdrew the Personal Data Protection Bill (2019) which had been pending in the House (Lok Sabha). The Bill included data residency obligations and the mandatory disclosure of cross-border data transfers for s…

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data localisation requirement
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). The Bill includes …

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…