Big win for Big Tech as Indian IT minister signals reversal of data sovereignty plan
India's IT minister has hinted that a revised data protection law will drop a requirement for sovereign data storage – satisfying big tech companies, which have railed against onshore storage.minister of state for electronics and information technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said cross-border data flows will be permitted under the law.a draft of the bill despite having spent two years trying to get it through parliament.Big Tech hates such restrictions.
The Coalition's argument is that businesses need free cross-border data flows so they can take advantage of offshore SaaS and cloud services, and that asking companies to figure out what data must stay onshore and what data can be sent to the cloud is unproductive.
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