The final Personal Data Protection bill drafted by the committee led by Justice BN Srikrishna did away with a couple problematic provisions, The Caravan reports. In a work-in-progress draft of the bill accessed by The Caravan, it was revealed that the Act vastly strengthened the power of public officials to decline RTI requests on personal privacy grounds. It also strengthened the exclusive right that the UIDAI had on filing Aadhaar-related complaints. Read: Justice Srikrishna data protection draft bill is now public, highlights and what happens next But in the final bill, these changes were no longer there — the RTI Act was amended, but the amendment in the final bill does not strengthen the pre-existing privacy clause significantly. The Aadhaar Act amendment was done away with, too. But then, the final version also added something else, per the report: localisation. Localisation in the Data Protection bill The localisation requirement in the Srikrishna Committee's final bill is among the legislation's most contentious features. The bill requires all data fiduciaries to store a copy of users' personal data in India. As for what personal data will constitute in different contexts, that hasn't been explicitly clarified. The previous draft bill that The Caravan obtained only had this localisation requirement for sensitive personal data, which is more clearly defined. Here's the version of the localisation requirement in the final bill that came out on Friday. Restrictions on Cross-Border Transfer of Personal Data. — (1) Every data fiduciary shall ensure the storage, on a server or data centre located…
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