Here are the hits and misses of India's draft Data Protection Bill

On 15 data protection policy-making metrics, we found that the Srikrishna Committee output passed muster on four principles

India is at the cusp of enacting a data protection legislation. After an eventful year following the Supreme Court’s Puttaswamy judgment interpreting right to privacy as a fundamental right and the appointment of experts’ committee on data protection in India by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, enactment of data protection legislation appears to be finally nearer to its next stage.

On July 27, 2018, a ten-member committee of experts on the data protection framework in India submitted a 176-page report and a draft bill entitled The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018 (“Draft Bill”) to the Minister of Electronics and