After 5 years of work, govt retracts data protection bill

The government on Wednesday sprung a surprise as it spiked the much-debated, and contentious Data Protection Bill from Parliament, promising to introduce a new legislation “very soon but without any dilution to broader privacy aspects of the original bill and without any compromise to the Right to Privacy” as provided by the Supreme Court in its historic judgment given in August 2017.

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