{"id":28065,"date":"2018-10-23T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=28065"},"modified":"2018-10-23T17:59:49","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T12:29:49","slug":"drafting-a-data-protection-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/drafting-a-data-protection-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Drafting a data protection Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/drafting-a-data-protection-bill\/article24586759.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drafting a data protection Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>News:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, recognises privacy as a fundamental right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Key features of the Bill are given below<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has provisions to protect personal data as an essential facet of information privacy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The objective of the bill is to balance the growth of the digital economy and use of data as a means of communication.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill applies to the processing of personal data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It includes the processing of personal data by the state, any Indian company, any Indian citizen, or any person or body of persons incorporated or created under Indian law.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill also brings within its ambit the processing of personal data by data fiduciaries or data processors located abroad in connection with business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposed law defines personal data as information relating to a natural person.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Srikrishna Committee has complied with the Supreme Court\u2018s suggestion that collection, processing and storage of personal data should be limited to the stated purpose. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill also mandates that data fiduciaries should retain personal data \u201conly as long as may be reasonably necessary to satisfy the purpose for which it is processed\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There should be a periodic review done to check if continued storage of data is necessary.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bill includes the \u2018right to be forgotten\u2019, which is the right of a data principal to restrict or prevent continuing disclosure of personal data by a data fiduciary.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drafting a data protection Bill News: The draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, recognises privacy as a fundamental right. Key features of the Bill are given below It has provisions to protect personal data as an essential facet of information privacy. 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