I. Background
The much-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019
("PDP Bill") was
introduced in the lower house of Parliament in India on December
11, 2019.
The PDP Bill is an omnibus, cross-sector privacy law, with
similarities to the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
and the California Consumer Privacy Act. It is a substantially
revised version of the draft Personal Data Protection
Bill, 2018, that was proposed in July 2018 by a Committee of
Experts set up by the Government, chaired by retired Supreme Court
judge, Justice Srikrishna ("Committee").
Along with the bill, the Committee had released their report with
views and deliberations giving context to the bill
("Report").
