Supreme Court asks RBI to confirm WhatsApp’s compliance with local data rules Reuters Aug 5, 2019 Supreme Court of India has given the Reserve Bank of India six weeks to report on whether WhatsApp had complied with data…
PayPal sets up tech centre in India, mulls data localisation PTI Jul 24, 2019 American digital payments player PayPal is working with its partners on localisation of data as mandated by the Reserve Bank of…
TikTok parent ByteDance to set up data centre in India IANS Jul 22, 2019 Beijing-based ByteDance that owns the popular short video-sharing app TikTok said it was planning to set up a data centre in India
Adani wants to rope in ‘Googles, Amazons of the world’ with Indian data hubs Bloomberg Jul 12, 2019 Now the Indian businessman is setting his sight on what he believes could become another big money maker: Selling data storage…
RBI to examine concerns over data localisation rule PTI Jun 19, 2019 The RBI will examine concerns around its strict data localisation rules that require storing of customer data exclusively in India…
Indo-US trade: India to review data storage rules that irked American tech firms Reuters Jun 19, 2019 India will examine concerns raised by foreign technology companies around stringent rules to store data locally, the government…
Piyush Goyal holds meeting with stakeholders on data localisation, e-commerce PTI Jun 18, 2019 Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal is holding meetings with Indian and foreign IT, e-commerce firms and other…
How Amazon is strengthening its data storage capacity to leverage data localisation FE Bureau May 7, 2019 Following Reserve Bank of India’s data localisation directive in January this year and government’s stringent focus on ensuring…
How ‘cybersovereignty’ splits the once World Wide Web Bloomberg May 4, 2019 Being sovereign means having the power to set the rules. Applied to cyberspace, it means a government controlling how the internet…
Payment service will be launched only after complying with RBI norms: WhatsApp to SC PTI May 4, 2019 Instant messaging app WhatsApp has told the Supreme Court that it is conducting a trial run of its payment service and will comply…