Draft Data Protection Bill entails penalty of up to Rs 250 cr for privacy breach

Aiming to protect personal data breach the Centre on Friday released the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 which entails the provision of fine of up to Rs 250 crore on datamanaging entities that fail to adopt reasonable security safeguardsThe draft Bill was put up for stakeholders comments by Minister for Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw earlier on FridayOne of the main objectives of the bill is to process digital data in a way which recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process it for lawful purposes and related mattersNoncompliance with other provisions of the proposed legislation would entail a penalty ranging from Rs 10000 to Rs 200 crore Though this would depend on the nature of violation or noncompliance with its provisions the draft Bill saidThe Bill also envisages setting up of a data protection board of India which will act as a digital regulatorIf the board determines at the conclusion of an inquiry that noncompliance by a person is significant it may after giving the person a reasonable opportunity of being heard impose such a financial penalty as specified in Schedule 1 not exceeding Rs 500 crore in each instance the draft Bill saidThe Telecom Ministry has sought public comments on the draft legislation by December 17Digital Personal Data Protection Bill frames out the rights and duties of the citizen Digital Nagrik on one hand and the obligations to use collected data lawfully of the Data Fiduciary on the other hand The bill is based on the following principles around the Data Economy a statement issued by the ministry saidThe Bill will establish the comprehensive legal framework governing digital personal data protection in India The Bill provides for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises the right of individuals to protect their personal data societal rights and the need to process personal data for lawful purposes it addedThe ministry has invited feedback from the public on the draft Bill The submissions will not be disclosed and be held in fiduciary capacity to enable persons submitting feedback to provide the same freely No public disclosure of the submissions will be made official sources saidOn personal data breach Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar had tweeted earlier this week that this violates privacy and data protectionIndias digital data protection bill will put a stop to this and ensure that any platform or intermediary that does this will face punitive and financial consequences he had tweeted on November 15Earlier the Government had brought the Data Protection Bill 2019 which was scrapped amid opposition from political parties and various sections of the societyThe earlier legislation was introduced on December 11 2018 and then referred to the joint Parliamentary committee for examinationAfter the Parliamentary panels report was presented to the Lok Sabha in December 2021 the Bill was returned with as many as 81 amendments and in August this year it was rescinded from the Lok SabhaAlso read 8737 of Indians concerned about how companies use their personal data ResearchThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever