Today Data Protection and User Privacy are one of the two major concerns for the techno community of the world. India which is also a leading technology nation is doing its first round of attempt in doing something on this issue at the domestic level. 

The PDP (Personal Data Protection) 2019 has been tabled in the lower house, Lok Sabha of the Indian Parliament. It has now been referred to the joint house panel. 

The Bill now has three important points that were not earlier included in the draft version which was prepared by a committee headed by retired judge Justice BN Srikrishna. 

Why Is Data Important?

Firstly we need to understand what is data? Data is any assortment of information that is put away in a manner so PCs can without much of a stretch read them (think 011010101010 arrangement). Data normally alludes to info about your messages, internet-based life posts, online exchanges, and program look.

The person whose information is being put away and handled is known as the information head in the PDP Bill. This enormous assortment of data about you and your online propensities has become a significant wellspring of benefits yet, in addition, a potential road for the attack on user data security since it can uncover incredibly close to home perspectives.  

Organizations, governments, and ideological groups think that its significant on the grounds that they can utilize it to locate the most persuading approaches to publicize to you on the web.  

It is presently certain that a significant part of things to come's economy and law requirement will be predicated on the guideline of data, presenting issues of national sway.  

Data is put away in a physical space like a file organizer of reports and shipped crosswise over nation outskirts in submerged links that run very profoundly like a mountainous range or a stream of a huge ocean. 

To be viewed as valuable, data must be prepared, which means it should worth analyzed by PCs.  

Data is gathered and dealt with by entities called data trustees. While the guardian (data trustee) controls how and why information is handled, the preparing itself might be by an outsider, the data processor.  

This qualification is critical to depict duty as data moves from controller to the processor. For instance, in the US, Facebook (the data controller) fell into contention for the activities of the data processor — Cambridge Analytica. 

The physical characteristics of data— where data is put away, where it is sent, where it is transformed into something helpful — are called data streams.  

Data localization contentions are introduced on the possibility that data streams figure out who approaches the data, who benefits off it, who duties and who claims it.  

So this was the very basic understanding of what is data and why it is important has been illustrated in detail so that before reading the PDP Bill we can understand what it is all about.