- India’s Criminal Procedure Identification (CPI) Act came into force last month.
- The abandoned legislation, the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019, would have required internet companies like Meta and Google to get specific permission for most uses of a person’s data — and would have eased the process of asking for such personal data to be deleted.
- Tech companies had specifically questioned a data-localization provision in the bill under which they would have been required to store a copy of certain sensitive personal data within India, while the export of undefined “critical” personal data from the country would have been prohibited.
India: Is biometric data privacy at risk? 07.09.2022
