Deccan Chronicle reports, based on Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomi's privacy policy, that the company transfers personal data of Indian users to third-party service providers outside the users' jurisdiction. The privacy policy is quoted thus: “As such complying with applicable laws, we may transfer your personal data to any subsidiary of the Xiaomi group worldwide when processing that information for the purpose described in this privacy policy. We may also transfer your personal data to our third-party service providers, who may be located in a country or area outside the area of the European Economic Area (EEA)”. Xiaomi is the leading mobile phone maker in India, with a 27% market share in the fourth quarter of 2018, as per News18. The report also says that MEITY in a response to an RTI query, said that it did not have any information about personal data transferred outside India’s jurisdiction and that the matter was of no concern to it. This is surprising, considering both the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018 and the draft national eCommerce policy have data localisation rules that address the flow of data outside India’s borders. While the DP Bill requires companies to store a copy of all personal data within India, the data storage requirements in the eCommerce policy are even more stringent. They severely limit the freedom of businesses to transfer or share sensitive data that is processed in India once it is outside the country, regardless of customer consent. In effect, they necessitate the setting up…
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