What Is the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019? | UpGuard

### Executive Summary This report summarizes the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019 introduced in India, outlining its purpose to protect individuals' personal data, establish a Data Protection Authority, impose obligations on data fiduciaries and processors (consent, notice, data subject rights, privacy-by-design), require localization for sensitive/critical data, and set significant penalties for non-compliance; it also covers exemptions for the state, breach notification rules, the bill's parliamentary review status as of March 2020, and prominent criticisms that the bill could enable government overreach and weaken privacy protections.