The fourth draft data protection bill looks to be no less contentious, as it adds vital protections but also exempts the country's government from all of its terms and appears to give tech platforms a fairly free hand in sending citizen data overseas.
The decision to scrap the data protection bill came from a parliamentary review process. IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has told reporters that work was already underway on a new personal data law, no doubt to the delight of big tech companies.


