Ravi Shankar Prasad, who holds the Law and Justice, Electronics and Information Technology and Communications portfolios, was delivering the Late Thakur Prasad Centenary Memorial Lecture on 'Data Privacy, Data Security and Data Sovereignty'.
The right to be forgotten under Indias Personal Data Protection Bill is different from the right provided in European law, writes ASHIT KUMAR SRIVASTAVA.
Shashi Tharoor of the Congress, who heads the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information and Technology, protested the move and said it should be referred to his panel.
The bill restricts and imposes conditions on the cross border transfer of personal data, and suggests setting up of Data Protection Authority of India to prevent any misuse of personal information.
