Data localisation row: It's Big Tech vs Reliance Industries and Paytm

RIL, Paytm support localisation; global tech firms say it could have socioeconomic fallouts

Serious differences have arisen between domestic companies such as Reliance Industries Ltd and Paytm, and global tech and media companies such as Google, Meta, Disney+Hotstar and others, on the contentious issue of data localisation in the proposed Data Protection Bill.  

In a meeting of the public policy committee of the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) on Wednesday, domestic players favouring data localisation pointed out that the mandate of the joint parliamentary committee (JPC) on the bill is not at all stringent as it has given two years to put the infrastructure in place.  They added that some members