Why India's data localisation Policy an Issue to US tech giants ?

Digitization and urbanisation brings change in the life of a common citizen and definitely it impacts the lifestyles of the netizens. It is also fact that technology teaches everyone to have better user experience, it resulted growing demand amongst Indians for Privacy and protection of the Information they share, specifically on digital platforms.

There has been an alarming rise in cybercrimes on a global scale. With India also moving towards a digital economy with the adoption of Aadhaar and an ever-increasing dependency on information, the concerns over cyber security, data protection and privacy are the most talkative agenda.

To address the growing concerns, the Government of India had set up a Committee of Experts, headed by Justice B. N. Srikrishna, to study the challenges surrounding data protection in India and provide their valuable suggestions and principles on which to base the data privacy legislative framework. The objective is to ‘ensure growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens secured and protected’, we can say as the is the first step in India's Data Privacy journey. The Supreme Court of India also holding 'Right to privacy' as a fundamental right lays the corner stone for a strong data privacy regime in India. The data protection framework, proposed by the Committee of Experts under the chairmanship of former Supreme Court judge Shri B N Srikrishna, is the first step in India's Data Privacy journey....Read More