In no particular order, here are MediaNama’s top 10 stories of the week ended 6th January 2019 MediaNama would like to thank its sponsors: E2E, for their support. IT Minister says no risk of data theft as Aadhaar amendment bill tabled in Parliament Amid concerns of the right to privacy and data security, the Minister of Electronic, Information and Technology, Ravi Shankar Prasad has tabled The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment Bill) 2018 for consideration and passing. Read it here FDI in the Ecommerce policy: Vendor neutral rules for marketplace-owned vendors The Department of Industrial Promotion & Policy revised its guidelines on FDI in e-commerce and set out new rules for marketplaces and vendors, with relation to inventory and FDI, last week. The new guidelines will come into effect from 1 February, 2019. Read it here ECI denies info about Aadhaar-voter ID linkage and the money spent on it Update, 2 January 2019: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has further denied to provide information about the number of Voter IDs linked with Aadhaar. MediaNama had filed an appeal under the Right to Information Act, requesting for the information and documents that the ECI had earlier denied on the grounds that “no information is available in any physical form in record of the Commission.” Read it here What does the Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment Bill), 2018 do? The Aadhaar and Other Laws (Amendment Bill), 2018 has been tabled in the lower house of the Parliament for consideration, despite resistance…
