{"id":215227,"date":"2022-11-21T18:09:38","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=215227"},"modified":"2022-11-21T18:09:38","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T12:39:38","slug":"what-indias-draft-digital-privacy-law-says-and-how-it-compares-with-data-protection-laws-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-indias-draft-digital-privacy-law-says-and-how-it-compares-with-data-protection-laws-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"What India\u2019s draft digital privacy law says \u2014 and how it compares with data protection laws elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cWhat India\u2019s draft digital privacy law says \u2014 and how it compares with data protection laws elsewhere\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on <b>20th November 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has recently released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/draft-digital-data-protection-bill-tabled-for-comments\/\"><b>Click Here to read<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the data protection laws in other countries?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to UNCTAD, an estimated 137 out of 194 countries have put in place legislation to secure the protection of data and privacy with Africa and Asia showing 61% (33 countries out of 54) and 57% adoption respectively. Some of these are:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>EU Model<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: The <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/gdpr\/\">GDPR<\/a> <\/strong>focuses on a comprehensive data protection law for the processing of personal data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has been criticized for being excessively stringent and imposing many obligations on organizations processing data but it is the template for most of the legislation drafted around the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 Note:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> In the EU, the right to privacy is enshrined as a fundamental right that seeks to protect an individual\u2019s dignity and his\/her right over the data s\/he generates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>US Model: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Privacy protection is largely defined as \u201cliberty protection\u201d focused on the protection of the individual\u2019s personal space from the government. It is viewed as being somewhat narrow in focus because it enables the collection of personal information as long as the individual is informed of such collection and use.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 The US template has been viewed as inadequate in key respects of regulation. This is because there is no comprehensive set of privacy rights or principles in the US like that of the EU\u2019s GDPR. Instead, there is limited sector-specific regulation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Chinese Model: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China\u2019s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) gives Chinese data principals new rights as it seeks to prevent the misuse of personal data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 China\u2019s Data Security Law(DSL) issued in 2021 requires business data to be categorized by levels of importance and puts new restrictions on cross-border transfers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211; These regulations will have a significant impact on how companies collect, store, use and transfer data but are essentially focused on giving the government overreaching powers to collect data as well as to regulate private companies that collect and process information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWhat India\u2019s draft digital privacy law says \u2014 and how it compares with data protection laws elsewhere\u201d published in Indian Express on 20th November 2022. What is the News? The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has recently released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-indias-draft-digital-privacy-law-says-and-how-it-compares-with-data-protection-laws-elsewhere\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What India\u2019s draft digital privacy law says \u2014 and how it compares with data protection laws elsewhere<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-215227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":6,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1698431206},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}