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Senior Associate in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) Practice at the Bengaluru office of Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. Molshree advises on data protection, outsourcing and other information technology matters. She can be reached at molshree.shrivastava@cyrilshroff.com

Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 - Analysis

A draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (“Bill”) has been introduced before the Lok Sabha on December 11, 2019.

The Bill is based, in large part, on the proposed draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“Draft Bill”) which was attached to the report submitted to the Government by the Committee of Experts constituted under the Chairmanship of Justice Srikrishna (Retd.) (for details see our analysis[1] of the Draft Bill and its comparison with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation[2] (“GDPR”)[3] ).

That being said, the Bill also includes several modifications and changes in scope and intent.…
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