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2 May 2022

India Can’t Keep Delaying Its Personal Data Protection Bill

ARJUN KANG JOSEPH

For the past five years, India has been on a journey to create a comprehensive data protection law. Those efforts include a report from a committee formed to study privacy issues in India, data protection bills, and most recently, a report from a committee tasked with studying one of those bills. Despite these efforts, no laws have been passed—and the recent committee report produced a number of causes for concern. For example, several members noted their objections to the provisions that enable the government to exempt its agencies from the bill’s provisions.

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