News India’s stock market regulator mandates securities sector to store data locally While data localisation has been relaxed in privacy legislation, sectoral regulators like SEBI batting for it creates a fragmented approach Sarvesh MathiMarch 9, 2023
News Revised data protection bill might allow data transfers to all countries, except those in blacklist A blacklist approach will be a big win for businesses because it allows them to carry on their business as usual without additional compliance... Sarvesh MathiMarch 9, 2023
News Why Are Jio, Airtel, and PayTM Pushing For Indians’ Personal Data to be Stored in India? They argued that personal data flows abroad will limit law enforcement agencies' access to data, dampen investments in data centres back home. Aarathi GanesanJanuary 6, 2023
News Use “Blacklist” Approach for Cross-Border Data Transfers: International Trade Association Software and Information Industry Association is wary of Indian data protection bill's "whitelist" approach of selective cross-border data transfer across countries. Akshit ChawlaDecember 26, 2022
News Finally, the EU and US Inch Towards A Framework for “Safe” Cross-border Personal Data Transfers The EU's data regulator, member states, and Parliament must now comment on the draft "adequacy decision" forwarded by the Commission Aarathi GanesanDecember 22, 2022
News “Data localisation undermines role of data in digital economy”: ITIF Report In its report, ITIF recommends policymakers to adopt practical measures for striking a balance between cross-border data flows and data localisation. Sarasvati NTDecember 20, 2022
News How Will the Data Protection Bill Approach Personal Data Transfers Outside of India? #NAMA Provision on data transfers abroad may create regulatory uncertainty and "diplomatic chaos", noted speakers at our event discussing the bill Aarathi GanesanDecember 17, 2022
News G20 Not the Right Forum to Discuss Global Cross Border Data Flows: Civil Society Orgs Developing countries have not 'bought into' idea of free flow of data across borders, shold not be discussed at G20, says the open letter Aarathi GanesanDecember 6, 2022
News DPDP Bill, 2022: Transfers of Personal Data to Select Countries Will Be Allowed DPDP 2022 says personal data of Indians can be transferred to 'notified' countries, and has removed data localisation provisions Aarathi GanesanNovember 18, 2022
News What Privacy Commitments Will Underlie Cross-Border Data Flows Between the EU and US? The refreshed Data Privacy Framework comes after two years of negotiations on EU-US data flows. Aarathi GanesanNovember 7, 2022