India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released an overview of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill's "salient features," including data fiduciary obligations, data subject rights, grounding principals and innovative features. The DPDPB cleared Indian Parliament 9 Aug. Meanwhile, in an interview with Bloomberg Television, Minister for Railways, Communications, Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw said the DPDPB "is intended to help the domestic industry flourish and shouldn't increase the burden on Big Tech companies."
10 Aug. 2023
MeitY provides rundown of India's data protection bill
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