Srikrishna panel could ask Google, Facebook and others to store data locally
India does not have a dedicated data protection law. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology had appointed an expert panel headed by former SC judge BN Srikrishna to draft a data protection law last August. Majority of the members from the panel want to ensure that sensitive personal data of Indian citizens is stored within the country as that will be in our best interests. With the misuse of public data with incidents such as the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal, it seems like a lot of the panel members are keen to ensure sensitive data of Indian citizens is stored locally. Asheeta Regidi, a cyber law expert, has discussed data localisation in detail in part 3 of our 12-part Understanding The Data Protection White Paper series.
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