New Delhi: Justice BN Srikrishna, retired judge of the Supreme Court, is the head of the committee drafting the Personal Data Protection Bill. Justice BN Srikrishna has now warned about this bill that the powers and legal powers that this bill will give to the central government can be a dangerous trend, which threatens the openness of society.
Justice Srikrishna sent a note of the bill to the Joint Select Committee of Parliament, stating that “it is becoming difficult to localize the data as pressure is being put on it by foreign companies.”
The first draft of the ‘Privacy Bill’ was released in July 2018 by a committee constituted under the leadership of Justice Sri Krishna. Explain that this is the first such bill in the country, which will regulate the data collection, movement and processing of any citizen of the country to protect his right to privacy.
Under this bill, before the use of personal data, it will be necessary to get the approval of the consumers, while the approval of the government will be required for biometric data. More strict action will be taken in the case of children. At the same time, all companies will have to share all their data with the government.
All personal data, including sensitive and non-sensitive data, has been asked to be stored in India in the draft prepared by Justice Sri Krishna. But now the IT ministry has introduced a redesign of the bill, in which a provision has been made to store sensitive data abroad. However, government approval will be required for this.