The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019

Ravi Shankar Prasad, the minister of Electronics and Information Technology, government of India, introduced the Personal Data Protection Bill in the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019. It has been referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee consisting of members from both houses of parliament, and its chairperson is Meenakshi Lekhi, a member of parliament from the New Delhi constituency.The Bill makes provisions for protecting the privacy of individuals relating to their personal data; specifying the flow and usage of personal data; creating a relationship of trust between persons and entities processing such data; protecting the rights of individuals whose personal data are processed; creating a framework of organisational and technical measures to process data; formulating norms for social media intermediaries, for cross-border transfers, the accountability of entities processing personal data, and for remedies for unauthorised and harmful processing; and establishing a Data Protection Authority of India for these purposes.