{"id":252223,"date":"2023-07-15T20:32:28","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=252223"},"modified":"2023-07-15T20:32:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T15:02:28","slug":"data-protection-bill-poses-severe-restrictions-to-rti-act-ncpri-cautions-govt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/data-protection-bill-poses-severe-restrictions-to-rti-act-ncpri-cautions-govt\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Protection Bill poses severe restrictions to RTI Act, NCPRI cautions govt."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the artic<\/span>le<b> \u201cData Protection Bill poses severe restrictions to RTI Act, NCPRI cautions govt.\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b>on<b> 15th July 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The National Campaign for Peoples\u2019 Right to Information (NCPRI) has warned that the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill will severely restrict the scope of the Right to Information (RTI) Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>How does the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill affect the Right to Information (RTI) Act?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP Bill) seeks to amend the\u00a0 Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act,\u00a0 in order to deny personal information at least one of the following grounds has to be proven: 1) information sought has no relationship to any public activity or information sought has no relationship to any public interest or 2) information sought would cause an unwarranted invasion of privacy and 3) PIO\/appellate authority is satisfied that there is no larger public interest that justifies disclosure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill proposes to remove all these exemptions <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prohibiting government agencies from sharing private information of any kind, regardless of the public interest it may entail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will severely restrict the scope of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0the RTI Act <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and adversely impact the ability of people to access information.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cData Protection Bill poses severe restrictions to RTI Act, NCPRI cautions govt.\u201d published in The Hindu on 15th July 2023 What is the News? The National Campaign for Peoples\u2019 Right to Information (NCPRI) has warned that the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill will severely restrict the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/data-protection-bill-poses-severe-restrictions-to-rti-act-ncpri-cautions-govt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Data Protection Bill poses severe restrictions to RTI Act, NCPRI cautions govt.<\/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":[1566,1731,9],"tags":[10498],"class_list":["post-252223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-bill-and-acts","category-public","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252223","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=252223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}