New Delhi: Joint Parliamentary Committee held a meeting regarding the Personal Data Protection Bill today as reported by ANI. The JPC adopted the draft report of the Joint Committee on The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 by a majority in the meeting and it will be tabled in the upcoming Parliament session.
The meeting was chaired by Bharatiya Janata Party MP, PP Chaudhary.
The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019, which deals with the protection of personal data and privacy of Indian citizens, was approved by the Central cabinet in December 2019. The Bill was drafted following a judgement by the Supreme Court in 2017 that declared Right to Privacy as a fundamental right of the citizen.
The last meeting of the Joint Parliamentary Committee was held on November 12 where adoption regarding the draft report of the Bill was considered.
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The Joint Committee was constituted with the purpose to examine the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019. The Bill was introduced in the lower house of Parliament on December 11, 2019.
The Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 proposes for protection of the privacy of individuals relating to their personal data, specify the flow and usage of personal data, establish trust between persons and entities processing personal data, protect the right of the person whose personal data is been processed, to create a framework for organisational and technical measures in the processing of data, laying down norms for social media intermediary, cross border transfer, accountability of entities processing personal data, remedies for unauthorised and harmful processing , and to establish a Data Protection Authority of India.