JPC report might stress on localised storage, dealing with of minors’ information

The joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill is more likely to submit its suggestions and remaining report on or earlier than March 12, in keeping with sources within the know.
The remaining report of the JPC is more likely to comprise in depth suggestions on norms for strict compliance of localised storage of delicate private data, dealing with of kids’s and minors’ information, anonymisation of economic and different delicate information, one of many sources mentioned.
“The final meetings of the JPC that started from November discussed all these issues clause by clause and the members felt the need to clearly lay down the norms so that the Bill is exhaustive in its approach of how data is handled in India,” a supply mentioned.
The report, mentioned to comprise about 98 clauses, was referred to the JPC headed by Meenakshi Lekhi in December 2019 and has had over 65 sittings until date. Officials from the ministries of IT, regulation and residential affairs, the Unique Identification Authority of India, the National Investigation Agency, the Narcotics Control Bureau and the Reserve Bank of India, amongst others have deposed earlier than the panel.
From the personal sector, executives from MasterCard India, Visa, PayTM, Google India, Facebook India, Twitter India, Amazon Web Services in addition to Amazon India, amongst others have appeared and made their submissions to the panel.
Google’s representatives had of their assembly with the JPC mentioned that India ought to keep away from information localisation necessities, which had irked the members of the JPC, whereas Paytm had mentioned information generated in India must be parked within the nation. Cab aggregators equivalent to Ola and Uber, whose representatives had additionally appeared earlier than the JPC earlier this month, have supported information localisation norms.

In November final yr, earlier than the JPC had began clause by clause consideration of the varied elements of the Bill, a number of tech coverage teams had written to Lekhi, in search of wider consultations on numerous elements of the Bill. The JPC had, nevertheless, gone forward with the deliberation on the problem.
The PDP Bill, first proposed by the federal government in 2018, has been pending for shut to 3 years now. It has seen a number of modifications to the unique draft drawn by retired Supreme Court decide Justice B N Srikrishna, who additionally mentioned that the revised Bill was “a blank cheque to the state”.
The newest model of the Bill, in full distinction to earlier 2018 draft, says {that a} committee for collection of Data Protection Authority (DPA), will embrace the Cabinet Secretary, the Law Secretary and the IT ministry secretary.
The 2018 draft had proposed that both the Chief Justice of India (CJI) or a Supreme Court decide nominated by the CJI ought to chair the committee for collection of the DPA.