Data privacy: Tension between big technology firms and govt boils over

Experts expect more regulatory action in India against these firms, and say this could have an impact on other parts of the world as well

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder, had said earlier that big tech firms deserve to have shots fired at them as they are super successful. Gates seems to be bang on, going by recent developments.
 
In January this year, the information technology Parliamentary committee, headed by Shashi Tharoor, met executives of social media firms Twitter and Facebook, and grilled them for hours on whether these platforms could rightfully suspend the account of ex-US President Donald Trump after he incited a riot on Capitol Hill.
 
That meeting was the starting point of a worry that has culminated into the Information Technology