Nextgov, December 21, 2021. The Alliance for Digital Innovation, BSA | The Software Alliance, and the Software and Information Industry Association asked for OMB to flesh out stronger agency guidelines to help government organizations abide by the modernization requirements of the IDEA Act. Leia mais

FCW, December 20, 2021. The IDEA Act was the focus of a separate Dec. 20 letter that ADI signed onto with BSA | The Software Alliance and the Software and Information Industry Association, where they urged OMB to issue implementation guidance for the law "so that agencies have the funding and clarity necessary." Leia mais

The Indian Express, December 20, 2021. The Joint Parliamentary Committee’s (JPC) report on the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, now referred to only as the Data Protection Bill, has overlooked the operational issues that may arise while following the recommendations made by it, policy groups and industry as well as think tank experts said. Leia mais

Business Standard, December 17, 2021. The parliamentary joint committee on the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, headed by P P Chaudhary, MP, on Thursday presented its report, recommending changes to draft legislation, including altering its name to “Data Protection Bill”. The key proposed changes to the Bill include those on data localisation, having a single data protection authority (DPA) for personal and non-personal data, and provisions for localisation and cross-border flows of data. Leia mais