Centre targeting early 2023 approval for new privacy billWe have started the drafting of the new bill, which is in good advanced stages, Vaishnaw said
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IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. Credit: PTI file photo
India's new privacy law draft is "very close" to being released and the government is targeting a parliamentary approval by early 2023, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told Reuters on Wednesday.
The Centre had earlier in the day withdrawn the data protection and privacy bill, which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.
"We have started the drafting of the new bill, which is in good advanced stages," Vaishnaw said, saying the draft release was "very close".