India tells tech firms to protect user privacy, prevent abuse

guest · Sep 19, 2019

India tells tech firms to protect user privacy, prevent abuse
September 19, 2019
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...tect-user-privacy-prevent-abuse-idUSKBN1W41S3

Technology firms must protect user privacy and prevent abuse of their platforms, India’s IT minister said on Thursday, speaking as the government draws up a data privacy law and seeks to push companies to store more data locally.

Federal Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said he wanted Indians to have access to more technology platforms but said this should not undermine user privacy.

“I have only one caveat - it must be safe and secure, it must safeguard the privacy rights of the individual and you must make extra efforts that people don’t abuse the system,” Prasad told industry executives at a gathering organized by Alphabet Inc’s Google in New Delhi.
India has already forced foreign payment firms such as Mastercard Inc and Visa Inc to store data locally.

Technology firms have been concerned that the government’s drive to step up measures to boost local data storage will increase investment costs.
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