India House Approves Privacy Bill in Boon for Google, Meta
- Legislation eases data flows and reduces compliance burdens
- To be placed in upper house where government lacks majority
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India’s lower house of parliament Monday approved a bill that seeks to ease data storage, processing and transfer norms for BigTech companies as well as local firms seeking growth abroad.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 that has been years in the making allows companies to export data to any country except those specified by New Delhi. The move is a boon for global enterprises such as Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Meta Platforms Inc. as it eases data flows and reduces their compliance burdens.