According to the Financial Express, the Indian Parliament’s monsoon session, starting on July 17th, will include the discussion of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022. The bill was reintroduced in November 2022, following its initial withdrawal in August. The revised legislation now imposes a maximum penalty of INR 5 billion for data breaches, whereas previous versions set the penalty at 2-4% of a company’s global turnover. In November of the previous year, the government released an updated draft of the new data protection bill after retracting the initial draft in August. The revised version outlines the rights and responsibilities of citizens regarding personal data protection, as well as provisions for the lawful use of collected data by data fiduciaries, which are companies handling individual data.
