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, and Uganda. In Venezuela, a reporter exposed a minister's corruption, and the next day, he vanished forever. Gandhi died around 80 years ago, but today, the truth is dying in front of your very own eyes.
I stand with my idea to speak against such oppressive acts by the government as it is against the right to privacy and I strongly believe that this act plays no role in making the governance more effective, but to put digital shackles on the citizen and make them live with fear and die in the fear.
Running away from our beloved country where our founding fathers shed their blood without any doubt, is not a solution anymore. remember and follow what the Father of our nation has quoted:
“Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly.”
– Mahatma Gandhi.
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