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Mozilla CEO: India's lack of data protection laws has harmed its citizens
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2020 07:49:56 +0000 (UTC)
https://thenextweb.com/in/2020/06/18/mozilla-ceo-indias-lack-of-data-protection-laws-has-harmed-its-citizens/ By Ivan Mehta TheNextWeb.com 06/18/2020Mozilla‘s CEO, Mitchell Baker, said yesterday that India’s lack of data protection bill has “increased the harm faced by ordinary Indians”. The country’s data protection bill is stuck in draft mode; last we heard of it was when the parliamentary committee invited comments on the revised drafted.
Last December, IT minister RS Prasad floated the new draft of the data protection bill, which listed some controversial points such as social media users verification and forced transfer of non-personal data to the government. Just after the bill was released, Mozilla wrote a blog criticizing some of these aspects of the draft.
Baker said in a TNW Answers session that current expectations from the government listen in the data protection bill poses risk to the average user’s data:
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