The provision in India’s proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Bill allowing transborder data flows to “certain notified countries” could “reinvigorate digital trade” between India, the EU and the U.S., Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center nonresident fellow Anand Raghuraman writes. India’s prior insistence on data localization requirements was part of the reason why it refused to sign onto the G-20 Osaka Track declaration and did not agree to the data-sharing pillar of the U.S.-led Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. He said India should prioritize policies including passing its legislation and developing the criteria for data-sharing adequacy.
12 Dec. 2022
Op-ed: India dropping data localization will 'reinvigorate digital trade'
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