The Indian government’s impending data protection legislation is expected to allow the transfer of data and storage in approved locations, the Economic Times of India reports. The new Digital Data Protection Bill reportedly scraps the data localization requirement in its previous incarnation, the Personal Data Protection Bill, that was withdrawn in August. The expected bill also does away with criminal penalties for data breaches, instead imposing fines as high as 2 billion rupees, multiplied by the overall number of affected users per data breach.
17 Nov. 2022
India's revised data protection bill scraps localization requirement
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