Indian Data Protection Regime – Close to Reality?

India has taken another step towards realising its dream of becoming a truly digital economy. Nearly a year after the landmark judgement by the Supreme Court of India that declared privacy as a fundamental right, the ‘Justice BN Srikrishna Committee’ (the Committee) released its first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB or the bill) on 27 July 2018.

The very usage of the word ‘fiduciaries’ in the proposed bill shows that its intent is to build a ‘trust based relationship’ between the data fiduciaries (similar to a data controller in GDPR) and the data principals (individuals whose personal data is being processed, similar to a data subject in GDPR).

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