IT ministry drafts data protection law
(WorldNews Business)

Personal data and information required by law to be kept out of the purview of the upcoming Act In the first draft of Data Protection and Governance Act, the Union IT and electronics ministry has proposed to put all digital data captured through handheld, desktop or systems manually or through biometric and point of sale (PoS) devices, card swiping machines among others under the ambit of the proposed Act. Currently, there is no law/Act for data protection in India. DNA had reported in the July 20 edition that the central government has decided to bring in a standalone data protection law for the country. The draft clearly mentions personal data kept by an individual and concerned only with...