Indian policymakers last year launched the praiseworthy effort to develop a cross-sector data protection law. India’s February 2019 draft e-commerce policy, which sought to address “community data,” vividly exemplified these concerns. Even the aforementioned new consultation on the data protection bill demonstrates the challenge of aptly defining and regulating “non-personal data.” It identifies “e-commerce data” as a type of “non-personal …
The United States has told India it is considering caps on H-1B work visas for nations that force foreign companies to store data locally, three sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, widening the two countries' row over tariffs and trade. A Washington-based industry source aware of India-US negotiations also said the United States was deliberating capping the number …
