Data Bill to cause a behavioural change in firms: Rajeev Chandrasekhar

MeitY to come up with all rules of the bill before tabling the bill in the parliament: MoS IT

The companies collecting and processing digital personal data of Indians will have to go for deep behavioral changes and it will not be business as usual for them after enactment of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2022.

This was stated by Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for Electronics and Information Technology, during public consultations on Friday.

The draft Bill, released in November, has provisions of hefty financial penalties ranging up to Rs 250 crore for each instance of failure in taking security safeguards to prevent personal data breaches.

Failure to notify the data protection Board and affected “data