1. INTRODUCTION
The long awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (the
"Bill") was released on July 27, 2018
along with the report by the Committee of Experts under the
chairmanship of Justice B. N. Srikrishna (the
"Report"). The Committee, chaired by
Justice Srikrishna, was constituted by the Ministry of Electronics
& Information Technology, Government of India to put together a
draft of data protection law for India. The Report elaborates on
the Committee discussions and deliberations and throws light on the
provisions of the Bill. The Bill may undergo further changes before
it is adopted as law.
This is a keystone development in the evolution of data
protection law in India. With India moving towards digitization, a
robust and efficient data protection law was the need of the hour.
The Bill has been drafted with an intention to fill in the vacuum
that existed in the current data protection regime, and to enhance
individual rights by providing individuals
