{"id":921880,"date":"2025-04-14T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T02:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=921880"},"modified":"2025-04-14T08:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T03:03:17","slug":"digital-rights-group-flags-concerns-over-rti-dilution-in-data-protection-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/04\/14\/digital-rights-group-flags-concerns-over-rti-dilution-in-data-protection-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital rights group flags concerns over RTI dilution in Data Protection Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital rights group Internet Freedom Foundation has contradicted Union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw\u2019s defence of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which the Opposition fears will dilute the Right to Information Act. <\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday night, the group said Vaishnaw had not addressed the INDIA bloc\u2019s concern that Section 44(3) of the law, whose rules are soon to be notified, \u201cweakens citizens\u2019 right to information and transparency in governance\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital rights group Internet Freedom Foundation has contradicted Union electronics and IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw\u2019s defence of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, which the Opposition fears will dilute the Right to Information Act. In a statement on Friday night, the group said Vaishnaw had not addressed the INDIA bloc\u2019s concern that Section 44(3) of the law, whose rules are soon to be notified, \u201cweakens citizens\u2019 right to information and transparency in governance\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-921880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=921880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/921880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=921880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=921880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=921880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}