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 Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade released a new draft National E-commerce Policy for stakeholder comments on 23 February 2019. The Policy takes forward key proposals of the draft Personal Data Protection Bill, 2018, in particular by advocating the ‘nationalisation’ of data, including through imposing data localization requirements. Lastly, certain types of data are exempted from these …
If data is likened to oil, it’s with good reason. Recent efforts towards creating a robust data protection framework in India focus on one aspect across various parts of the government machinery—data localization. Four key pronouncements in quick succession have hailed data localization as the solution to protect Indian consumers and safeguard India’s national and economic interests. The bad news, …
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