FDPPI, an organization of Data protection Professionals in India has presented its comments on the draft PDPA 2018 (Personal Data Protection Act 2018) as presented by the Ministry of Electronics Information Technology (MeitY) under the recommendation of the Justice Srikrishna Committee.
The extended last date for submission was October 10, 2018. Considering the recent Judgement of the Supreme Court, the Government is under an obligation to pass the legislation at the earliest so that a Data Protection Law will be in place in the country as envisaged by the Supreme Court.
A Copy of the recommendations submitted by FDPPI is available here
The comments/recommendations of FDPPI contain several new thoughts which have not been under discussion since the draft was available. They will be elaborated in greater detail in a series of articles here.
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