The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Data Protection Bill was tabled in the parliament on Thursday.
The committee has called for a single data protection authority for personal and non-personal data, stricter data localisation norms and also recommended that social media platforms be treated as publishers of content.
CNBC-TV18's Ashmit Kumar explains the key features and a few prickly issues that have already been red flagged.
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