India nixes data privacy bill that alarmed big tech companies

India nixes data privacy bill that alarmed big tech companies

Google, New York, United States. Photo: Arthur Osipyan/unsplash

India‘s government on Wednesday withdrew a controversial data protection and privacy bill which was first proposed in 2019 and had alarmed big technology companies such as Facebook and Google, announcing it was working on a new comprehensive law.

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