New Delhi: The Joint Parliament Committee for the Personal Data Protection Bill cannot adopt a report on Friday as the Chaudhary PP panel chair tried to include last minute amendments to get rid of clauses on the social media platform borne by the new rules.
The move experienced strong protests by opposition members, including Bhartruhari Mahtab and Amar Patnaik, Congress’ Manish Tewari, Jairam Ramesh, and Gaurav Gogoi, and even BJP Satya Pal Singh, who said there was an urgent need for law.
The main objection submitted by parliamentarians relating to the offer to “disburse” the penalty clause which repaired 2% and 4% of global platform revenues such as Facebook and Twitter, if they were found to violate the Privacy Act.
Last minute amendments, said Source, strive to reduce the number of Standards of Rs 10-15 Crore, which caused an exchange that was heated between several members who alleged that the government tried to disburse the penalty clause from a big one.
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They said the social media company pressed the government to reduce the valid sentence.
JPC has seen discussions about whether social media can only be referred to as a platform or aggregator or actually “publishers” with the same responsibilities as publications.
Chaudhary argues that IT guidelines are not formulated when the panel has taken this problem but parliamentarians feel there is a need for certain laws and data bills present excellent opportunities given that there is a round sound in the panel over the need for a big tech to be more responsible.
After a pretty much discussion where Chaudhary said the penalty clause was not too practical, it was decided that a new draft from the Committee report would be circulated on November 18 and the Committee would meet again on November 22 to consider Bill Afresh.
Sources say parliamentarians also demand that the issue of IT rules that include the responsibility of the social media platform must be specifically written into the JPC report if this is a Chaudhary argument that the committee wants to consider.
Considerations also saw members opposing clauses debated 35 of the Draft Data Protection Bill design, which provided blanket release to the government and institutions to comply with each and all PDP bill conditions.
Members argue that the government can only be released with the procedure “fair, fair, reasonable, and proportional”, and the exception must only be done in the case of “extraordinary”.