India: Rejected Personal Data Protection Bill including cross-border transfer requirements

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 would have set out the rules for cross-border data transfers (art. 33 ). The Bill specified that sensitive personal data could have been transferred outside India under the express consent of the data subject but the critical personal data could have been processed only in India.