The Telangana government's IT ministry will object to the Personal Data Protection Bill's requirement that one copy of all users' personal data be stored in India, the Economic Times reports. KT Rama Rao, the Cabinet Minister for IT, confirmed this to the publication, and said that the ministry would send a letter to Ravi Shankar Prasad, the Union IT minister. MediaNama has reached out to Telangana's IT ministry for comment and will update this when we hear from them. At this stage, the specifics of the Telangana government's objection are not accessible, and the contents of its letter to the Centre also unknown. An IT ministry spokesperson told ET that "Views of state governments and public response are being sought. Data protection law would also be placed for Cabinet’s approval before finalising the legislation." American and Indian tech companies have been critical of this requirement in the bill, saying that it would drive up their costs in India and force them to set up large data centres to accommodate the trove of personal data of Indians that they currently hold abroad. Will data localisation work? The Srikrishna committee has positioned localisation as a way to boost investment, ensure quick law enforcement access to data, and also a way to protect user privacy. At MediaNama's recent event on the DPA, Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy from BSA said that law enforcement access to data was a legitimate concern, since governments currently had to go through the cumbersome and inefficient MLAT process (which is itself broken) to get…
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