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Only ‘critical’ data to be stored in India, no curbs on personal info: Govt

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Only ‘critical’ data to be stored in India, no curbs on personal info: Govt The proposal is significant as it marks a departure from the original draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill Current Affairs :- The IT Ministry is probably going to recommend that individual data which neither qualifies as ‘basic’ nor ‘delicate’ ought to be permitted to be put away and prepared anyplace, while information named ‘basic’ ought to be held distinctly in India under the draft Personal Data Protection Bill. The proposition is huge as it denotes a takeoff from the first draft of the Personal Data Protection Bill, which had prescribed that duplicate of every single individual datum ought to be put away in the nation. The tweaking of this arrangement, whenever acknowledged, will spell an alleviation for organizations. The draft Data Protection Bill put together by Justice B N Srikrishna panel a year ago had additionally recommended that individual information that is of ‘basic’ nature...

Asian internet lobby to fight India's plans to police social media content

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Asian internet lobby to fight India’s plans to police social media content The proposal drafted by India’s technology ministry in December would compel Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to remove within 24 hours content deemed to be unlawful https://www.business-standard.com/article/reuters/tech-lobby-takes-india-to-task-over-plans-to-police-online-content-119013101609_1.html?utm_source=SEO&utm_medium=Y An Asian web campaign gathering, whose individuals incorporate Alphabet’s Google and Facebook, on Thursday censured Indian government’s arrangements to control online networking content. The proposition drafted by India’s innovation service in December would propel Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter to evacuate inside 24 hours substance considered to be unlawful, including anything influencing the “sway and honesty of India”. Tech mammoths are planning to battle the adjustments in the “mediator rules”, Reuters has detailed. “While Internet mediators completely bolster tend...