Industry-friendly, according to IAMAI, is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill
- ByStartupStory | January 3, 2023
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDP) has been hailed as industry-friendly by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI). IAMAI claims that the bill achieves the ideal mix between safeguarding the rights of data principals and providing freedom for ICT start-ups to develop and innovate.
“According to the feedback received from the majority of IAMAI members, the reconceptualization of the data protection framework in the DPDP to balance innovation and economic growth with the interests of users will go a long way to assuage concerns of digital businesses and help make India a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025.” said the body in a statement.
IAMAI, in particular, is grateful for the DPDP Bill’s exclusion of non-personal data and its more liberal framework for international data transfers. The internet organization also commended the bill’s financial sanctions for non-compliance rather than both financial and criminal sanctions.
Commenting on the bill, Dr. Subho Ray, president of IAMAI, stated, “By following a deep and wide process of consultation, including that of a joint parliamentary committee, excluding non-essential provisions, making a clear commitment that no rules exceeding the provisions of the Act would be made, and yet protecting the interests of the state, citizens, and the digital economy, this bill has possibly set up new standards of law-making.”
In order to ensure better compliance by IAMAI members once the DPDP is voted into law, the association has asked the government for clarifications on behalf of its members. There are still questions, in particular, about the timelines for putting the bill’s various provisions into effect and the procedures for getting verifiable parental approval to process children’s personal data.
IAMAI has asked the government to clearly indicate reasonable timelines by which the various provisions of the DPDP will be implemented and to adopt a graded approach to prescribing such timelines because the inclusion of specific timelines will provide a roadmap for the industry to better comply with the bill. IAMAI has also asked the government to take a flexible approach to getting parental consent because prescriptive regulations may have a negative cascading effect on industries that offer services to children.
In IAMAI’s opinion, the final version of the law will benefit those who have a stake in and a commitment to India’s digital ecosystem through dialogue and cooperation.
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