Indian Parliament cites areas of refinement for next data protection bill draft

Sources close to Indian Parliament indicated the government mapped out four topics to consider dropping or fine-tuning in its fresh data protection proposal, Financial Express reports. The topics include regulation of hardware and devices, data localization requirements, regulatory authorization for every cross-border data transfer, and penalties on global turnover for any violation. Parliament is expected to run public consultations on each topic before arriving at final provisions. Each topic received scrutiny in the draft Data Protection Bill before it was withdrawn.