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In a recent report, the 25th Standing Committee on Finance asked the Competition Commission of India (CCI) whether it was feasible to integrate the provisions of the proposed Digital Competition Bill (DCB) with those of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, which was ratified as a law in August 2022.
The CCI maintained that, despite the similar nature of regulations under both, the anti-trust law framework was an essential regulatory tool to address the exploitative and exclusionary behaviour arising from data accumulation by entities with market power.
The DPDP Act, which was ratified as a law in 2023, also
