In an op-ed for BloombergQuint, Pranesh Prakash writes why data localization laws in India could lead to increased surveillance from the government and law enforcement. Prakash writes the benefits from data localization have not proven to be explicitly useful in countries that have enacted the rules, such as China, nor have their absence been harmful for countries that do not have any limits in place, such as the U.S. "Given this, the recent spate of data localisation policies and regulation can only be seen as part of an attempt to increase the scope and ease of the Indian government’s surveillance activities, while India’s privacy laws still remain very weak and offer inadequate legal protection against privacy-violating surveillance," Prakash writes.
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