The much-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 will finally be tabled in the winter session of Parliament on November 29. But for people who worked on the 2018 version, the interest in the Bill has long been lost. A source who helped the committee with the first draft in 2018, said, “People who were there right from day zero, you know who created the mother document, they have completely lost interest. Whatever has happened over the last two years, they just wanted to stay away from it, take a backseat.” Even as the Bill is set to be tabled, many of them don’t want to be a part of deliberations given that some of the provisions such as inclusion of social media has come as a shock. “So we are like, let there be some finality and then see if there is anything worth looking at,” the source added.
