49% Indians want Chinese firms to assure no sharing data with China: Survey

The survey conducted by LocalCircles also says that action should be taken against the Indian companies with higher Chinese ownership and the Chinese directors must resign.

About 49 per cent of Indian citizens say Chinese companies should be allowed to sell products in India only after they give an undertaking stating no personal or aggregate data of Indian customers would be shared with China and that all such information must reside in India, according to a new survey by LocalCircles.

In India, while personal data protection is to be governed by the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019, aggregate data is to be governed by the e-commerce policy which is still being drafted. However, a temporary undertaking solution could be implemented which prevents any data (related to