Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
The digital gap between urban and rural India has reduced
considerably. As per the annual report 2018-2019 published by the
Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the number of
internet users in India is expected to reach 829 million by 2021.
The exponential growth in use of internet in India has brought into
fore the need for informational privacy. Considering the amount of
data being created and stored, there is an imminent need for data
protection with the aim to safeguard information from corruption,
compromise and loss.
To address the need for information privacy, the Government of
India constituted a committee under the chairmanship of retired
Justice B. N. Srikrishna to prepare a comprehensive data protection
law. The committee submitted the draft Personal Data Protection
Bill, in July 2018 (Bill 2018). Based on the comments and
suggestions solicited from the public, various stakeholders, the
Union Cabinet on
