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Section 44

Amendments to certain Acts

Amends the TRAI Act, removes section 43A of the IT Act, and substitutes the personal information exemption in the RTI Act.

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What it says

01
The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India Act, 1997 is amended to accommodate the Appellate Tribunal’s new jurisdiction.
02
Section 43A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, which carried the earlier compensation regime for failure to protect sensitive personal data, is omitted.
03
Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 is substituted, exempting information relating to personal information from disclosure.

In practice

The omission of IT Act s.43A is the practical change. The old SPDI compensation route is gone, and with it the sensitive-personal-data category that the 2011 rules built. Anyone still classifying data as SPDI is working from a repealed framework.

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