India: Rejected Personal Data Protection Bill including interoperability requirement
Description
Rejected Personal Data Protection Bill including interoperability requirement
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 introduced interoperability requirements for social media intermediaries. In particular, The Bill would have required entities to enable online users to interact with users from other platforms and share information.
Original sourceScope
Policy Area
Design and testing standards
Policy Instrument
Interoperability 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
2021-12-16
under deliberation