The #DataProtectionBill must be harmonised with the provisions and objectives of the #RTIAct. This would be in line with the recommendation of the Justice A.P. Shah report on privacy that said, “The Privacy Act should clarify that publication of personal data for public interest and disclosure of information as required by the Right to Information Act should not constitute an infringement of privacy.”


Neither the recognition of the Right to Privacy, nor the enactment of a data protection law, requires any amendment to the existing RTI law.

Second, given that the government is the biggest data repository, the law must not give wide discretionary powers to the executive.


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