The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022.pdf (meity.gov.in) https://www.meity.gov.in/writereaddata/files/The%20Digital%20Personal%20Data%20Protection%20Bill%2C%202022.pdf

https://www.businesstoday.in/opinion/columns/story/why-the-promised-right-to-privacy-and-data-protection-law-has-not-been-enacted-yet-223449-2019-08-30 enforcers and interpreters of law have shown unpardonable callousness with regard to the age of 'big data' or the collection of data sets which are 'marked by their exhaustive scope and the permanency of collection'. It entails 'profiling' by automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person. It includes analysis or prediction of aspects concerning natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements for the 'nth' time...

The failure of Supreme Court to ensure enactment of right to privacy and data protection law has grave consequences for India's position on e-commerce, computing cloud, cyber jurisdiction, high computing capacity, artificial intelligence, mathematical algorithms, and analytics, which have the potential to make digital colonisation fool-proof through data colonisation in what is being called the Fourth Revolution. Government manoeuvres are grossly procedural, formalistic and insincere. The proposal of Draft Personal Data Protection Bill and the Privacy Bill is akin to putting a cart before the horse.

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