Need for surveillance reform stronger than ever in light of the Draft Data Protection Bill, 2021

The Joint Parliamentary Committee Report on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDP Bill) is here. The report, however, fails to tackle head-on one of the most pressing issues facing the country presently: surveillance reform. This leaves out any regulation or oversight over projects such as the National Intelligence Grid (NatGrid) or the CCTNS (Crime and Criminal Tracking Network System) which has databases on lakhs of Indians.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://internetfreedom.in/surveillance-reform-pdpb/