Wide-ranging government exemptions, provisions allowing the Centre a greater control over the enforcement process, and a measure for the government to bypass norms around seeking express consent from citizens – replete with some of its biggest criticisms, the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, was introduced in Parliament on Thursday. In its new avatar, the proposed law has also accorded virtual censorship powers to the Centre.
The final version of the Bill, tabled in Lok Sabha by IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, has retained the contents of the original version of the legislation proposed last November, including those that were red flagged by privacy experts.
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