Is DIGITAL PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION ACT (DPDPA), Really necessary for running the government more effectively ?
When we (India) were busy doing Hindu-Muslim in Sambal, Nagpur, Muzaffarnagar, and IPL, celebrating the arrest of comedians, a new law was quietly passed in the country, with no headlines, no debates, and no outrage. It is the Digital Personal Data Protection Act. It is such a bizarre act that gives unfair power to the government over our Digital Presence online. For example, if you ask the prime minister, "What is this degree that you claim to have?" (the degree in political science), that could be a 500 crore fine. If you expose someone like Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, or Mehul Choksi, who looted thousands of crores of your money, the citizen's money, You are the criminal now. If you publish RTI data to expose Ration Fraud by an IAS officer, according to this act, you can now be in jail. Why? Because you are exposing them without their permission. This is not Data Protection, This is Criminal Protection. This is exactly how countries collapse. Look at Venezuela, Belarus,...