Data protection Bill may be introduced in Monsoon Session

“The Bill is ready and the plan was to introduce it in the last leg of Parliament’s Budget session,” the official said. “Now we will introduce it in the Monsoon session.”

The Budget Session of Parliament — the second leg of which saw daily disruptions both by the ruling and opposition benches — ended on Thursday.

The initial days of the second leg of the Budget Session saw BJP members disrupting the Houses, demanding an apology from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi over his remarks in the UK and the Opposition members pressing for a joint Parliamentary panel probe into the charges on the Adani group. Rahul’s disqualification as MP added fuel to the fire.

The Indian Express had earlier reported that among the new changes to the Bill is that it could allow global data flows by default to all jurisdictions other than a specified negative list of countries where such transfers would be restricted in a move that could further liberalise conditions for data transfers. The draft provision on cross-border data flows states that the Centre will notify countries or territories where personal data of Indian citizens can be transferred.