Lady Whistledown
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Serikali ya India imeondoa Muswada wa ulinzi wa data na faragha wa 2019 unaotajwa kuipa Serikali Mamlaka ya kuuliza Kampuni kutoa taarifa binasfi za Wateja wa Kampuni za Teknolojia ili kusaidia kutunga Sera, kinyume na Sera za Kampuni hizo
Serikali imesema hatua hiyo ni baada ya mapitio ya jopo la Bunge kupendekeza marekebisho mengi, dhidi ya Muswada huo na kusababisha hitaji la "mfumo mpana wa kisheria" na kusema kuwa watawasilisha Muswada mpya
India inasema kanuni kama hizo zinahitajika ili kulinda data na faragha ya raia. Wanasiasa wamesema kuwa wasiwasi kuhusu matumizi mabaya ya data nyeti ya kibinafsi umeongezeka kwa kasi nchini India.
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India’s government has withdrawn a data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.
The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows and proposed giving the Indian government powers to seek user data from companies, seen as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stricter regulation of tech giants.
A government notice on Wednesday said the decision came as a parliamentary panel’s review of the 2019 bill suggested many amendments, leading to the need for a new “comprehensive legal framework”. The government will now “present a new bill”, the notice added.
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Reuters the government has started drafting the new bill, “which is in good advanced stages”, with a public release “very close”. The government aims to get the new bill approved and made into law by early 2023 in the parliament’s budget session which typically runs January-February, he said.
The 2019 privacy bill was designed to protect Indian citizens and establish a so-called data protection authority, but it had raised concerns among Big Tech giants that it could increase their compliance burden and data storage requirements.
“It is good that there will be a redraft from scratch,” said Prasanto Roy, a New Delhi-based consultant who closely tracks India’s technology policy.
“However, India still has no privacy law in sight. That’s leaving data regulation open to a wide variety of sectoral regulations, something a common privacy law could have harmonised.”
Asked about consultation with stakeholders on the new bill, Vaishnaw said the process “won’t be that long” because the parliamentary panel that reviewed the old bill had already gathered industry feedback.
Serikali imesema hatua hiyo ni baada ya mapitio ya jopo la Bunge kupendekeza marekebisho mengi, dhidi ya Muswada huo na kusababisha hitaji la "mfumo mpana wa kisheria" na kusema kuwa watawasilisha Muswada mpya
India inasema kanuni kama hizo zinahitajika ili kulinda data na faragha ya raia. Wanasiasa wamesema kuwa wasiwasi kuhusu matumizi mabaya ya data nyeti ya kibinafsi umeongezeka kwa kasi nchini India.
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India’s government has withdrawn a data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.
The 2019 law had proposed stringent regulations on cross-border data flows and proposed giving the Indian government powers to seek user data from companies, seen as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s stricter regulation of tech giants.
A government notice on Wednesday said the decision came as a parliamentary panel’s review of the 2019 bill suggested many amendments, leading to the need for a new “comprehensive legal framework”. The government will now “present a new bill”, the notice added.
IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Reuters the government has started drafting the new bill, “which is in good advanced stages”, with a public release “very close”. The government aims to get the new bill approved and made into law by early 2023 in the parliament’s budget session which typically runs January-February, he said.
The 2019 privacy bill was designed to protect Indian citizens and establish a so-called data protection authority, but it had raised concerns among Big Tech giants that it could increase their compliance burden and data storage requirements.
“It is good that there will be a redraft from scratch,” said Prasanto Roy, a New Delhi-based consultant who closely tracks India’s technology policy.
“However, India still has no privacy law in sight. That’s leaving data regulation open to a wide variety of sectoral regulations, something a common privacy law could have harmonised.”
Asked about consultation with stakeholders on the new bill, Vaishnaw said the process “won’t be that long” because the parliamentary panel that reviewed the old bill had already gathered industry feedback.
