<p class="title">India's new privacy law draft is "very close" to being released and the government is targeting a parliamentary approval by early 2023, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told <em>Reuters</em> on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Centre had earlier in the day <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/centre-withdraws-data-protection-bill-from-lok-sabha-1132722.html" target="_blank">withdrawn the data protection and privacy bill</a>, which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have started the drafting of the new bill, which is in good advanced stages," Vaishnaw said, saying the draft release was "very close".</p>
<p class="title">India's new privacy law draft is "very close" to being released and the government is targeting a parliamentary approval by early 2023, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told <em>Reuters</em> on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Centre had earlier in the day <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/centre-withdraws-data-protection-bill-from-lok-sabha-1132722.html" target="_blank">withdrawn the data protection and privacy bill</a>, which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"We have started the drafting of the new bill, which is in good advanced stages," Vaishnaw said, saying the draft release was "very close".</p>