Posts | Aditi Agrawal (@aditi_muses@mastodon.social)

New: MeitY met four media bodies to discuss two primary issues in the DPDP Act: removal of exemption for journalistic work, and dilution of the RTI Act.

MeitY said journalists are not data fiduciaries + S8(2) of RTI Act retains the act’s strength despite the amendment of S8(1)(j).

Link to article with all the details: https://thetechtrace.substack.com/p/edition-10-meity-met-media-bodies-dpdp-act

The Tech Trace

Edition 10: MeitY met media bodies over Digital Personal Data Protection Act

The meeting focussed on two issues with the DPDP Act: removal of exemption for journalistic work, and dilution of the RTI Act.

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