NEW DELHI, Nov 18 (Reuters) – India on Friday proposed a new data privacy law, a regulation that may dictate how tech giants function on this planet’s second-largest cell market, the place there are additionally greater than 700 million web customers.

Below are a few of the key features of the proposed “Digital Personal Data Protection Bill”.

* The authorities can have the facility to specify the international locations to which firms can switch private knowledge. This will permit firms to ship person knowledge to servers in international locations on that listing.

* The authorities has the facility to exempt state businesses processing knowledge from the proposed legislation within the curiosity of nationwide safety.

* The authorities will set up a “Data Protection Board” for making certain compliance with the proposed legislation. The board may even hear person complaints.

* Companies of “significant” measurement – primarily based on components equivalent to the quantity of knowledge they course of – ought to appoint an unbiased knowledge auditor to guage compliance with provisions of the legislation.

* The Data Protection Board can levy monetary penalties for non-compliance. Failure of entities to take affordable safety safeguards to forestall knowledge breaches might end in fines of as much as 2.5 billion rupees ($30.6 million), the draft proposal stated.

* Companies will likely be required to cease retaining person knowledge if it now not serves the enterprise goal for which it was collected. Users shall have the best to correction and erasure of their private knowledge.

* No firm or organisation will likely be allowed to course of private knowledge that’s “likely to cause harm” to kids, and promoting can not goal kids. Before processing any private knowledge of a kid, parental consent will likely be required.

* The legislation will cowl private knowledge collected on-line and digitised offline knowledge. It may even apply to the processing of non-public knowledge overseas, if such knowledge entails profiling Indian customers or promoting providers to them.

Reporting by Arpan Chaturvedi and Munsif Vengattil; Editing by Aditya Kalra and Tom Hogue

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