[2][3] The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology set up a committee to study issues related to data protection.
The Wikimedia Foundation is hoping that the PDP bill will prove the lesser evil compared with the Draft Information Technology [Intermediary Guidelines (Amendment) Rules] 2018.
[27][28] Forbes India reports that "there are concerns that the Bill gives the government blanket powers to access citizens' data.
[37] Both laws grant similar rights to individuals but differ in their approach to legal bases for data processing.
[38][39][40] The Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ashwini Vaishnaw and the then MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar stated in press that the Central government is setting up the Data Protection Board of India which will be an adjudicating body.