RSS ideologue Govindacharya backs Mukesh Ambani's data localisation pitch

Data localisation has become a thorny issue in the past year, with the government making a push for local data storage in several policies and proposed legislations

RSS ideologue KN Govindacharya has written to the Prime Minister expressing support for Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani’s statements on data localization. He has also renewed the demand for making foreign technology companies more accountable in India.

Ambani had on Thursday said at the launch of the Vibrant Gujarat Summit that there was a need for a movement against data colonisation, and called for migration of control and ownership of data to India.

A vocal supporter of data localisation or storing of data in severs physically present within the borders of the country where it was generated, Govindacharya had filed