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India's new rules for data privacy may be more like China's than Europe's

The Indian government has junked the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with "a comprehensive legal framework"

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Andy Mukherjee | Bloomberg
After five years of negotiations involving the government, tech companies and civil society activists, the world’s largest democracy is sending its debate on privacy back to the drawing board. The Indian government has junked the personal data protection bill, and decided to replace it with “a comprehensive legal framework.” If the current anarchy wasn’t bad enough, nobody knows what the revamped regime will contain — whether it it will put individuals first, like in Europe, or promote vested commercial and party-state interests, like in China. 
 
Back in 2017, India’s liberals were hopeful. In July that year, New Delhi set up

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