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America's major tech companies are pushing back against India's proposed data protection laws, with a lobby group led by ex-Cisco CEO John Chambers emerging as the protest organiser. The move came a week after the proposals, first published at the end of July, were opened for comment by the Ministry of IT. The draft copped …

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  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Chickens coming home to roost.

    The US is gradually having to accept that t doesn't actually legislate for the rest of the world - and, in some cases, that there actually is a rest of the world.

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    1. John Brown (no body) Silver badge
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      Yes, they were complacent over GDPR and now it's biting them in the arse. So they will double down in lobbying against anything similar in other parts of the world. They will discover in India, as they have with the EU, that big, valuable markets actually hold the big stick, not the global corps and those big valuable markets are actually much bigger and more valuable than they realised.

      It;s a bit like the fictional EMEA that the big US corps invented for their regional accounting purposes. I don't think they had any idea that the EU could be bigger, alone, than the US domestic market so lumped in the Middle East and Africa for their own convenience. The Middle East and Africa are vastly different markets from each other and both a vastly different from the EU market and really ought to be treated separately.

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  2. Flywheel

    "Not Secure"

    Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology are not using HTTPS. Oh dear...

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  3. strum

    >"Data localisation is not just a business concern, it potentially makes government surveillance easier, which is a worry."

    Well, quite. Indian surfers have every right to worry about surveillance by a foreign government.

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  4. Anonymous Coward
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    "Data localisation is not just a business concern,...

    it potentially makes government surveillance easier, which is a worry."

    Which government, India or USA?

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  5. Sir Loin Of Beef

    This is why the is a fad. Once people truly realize that "the cloud" means data can be anywhere, freakout occurs, and calls like this story, to move data back to the home country, become the norm.

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    1. iRadiate
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      Nothing wrong with a local cloud :)

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  6. Will Godfrey Silver badge
    Meh

    Interesting

    Yes, there's a risk this will be abused, but on the other hand all this info already is being extensively abused - it just happens to be by one country.

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    This should be the norm. Any sensitive date should be kept onshore and that should be the rule for any country.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    This is the same country that has demanded backdoors into Whatsapp in order to punish dissent in Kashmir. Do not even try to compare India to Europe.

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  9. Oengus

    Business Model

    saying he was concerned at data being moved offshore without the consent of end users.

    I thought that was a business model for a lot of Indian tech companies... oh, sorry wait, that is about moving foreign users data onshore without their consent. That's a big difference.

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  10. GrapeBunch

    Simply a good move by India. They've created a bargaining chip from nothing. USA does that in its sleep.

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