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Senior Congress leader and former I&B Minister Manish Tewari has asked how the Digital Data Protection Bill can be classified as a financial bill, and said it should be considered as a regular bill.
The bill should again go to a Joint Parliamentary Committee, he said.
Tewari later on tweeted , How Did the Digital Data Protection Bill get classified as a Financial Bill suddenly?
How Did the Digital Data Protection Bill get classified as a Financial Bill suddenly? If this bill on passage is certified as a money bill by @loksabhaspeaker @ombirlakota which seems to be the intent of getting it classed as a Financial Bill then Rajya Sabha can not vote on it.… pic.twitter.com/u2xdvOz1Vj
— Manish Tewari (@ManishTewari) August 3, 2023
The bill aims to make entities like internet companies, mobile apps, and business houses more accountable and answerable about collection, storage and processing of the data of citizens as part of Right to Privacy.
