Data policy tweaks set to keep India Inc busy in 2020

Bengaluru: As 2019 comes to an end with the introduction of the long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill, India Inc awaits yet another year of hectic technology policymaking that will seek to regulate everything from personal and nonpersonal data, technology intermediaries, ecommerce companies, over-the-top platforms, cloud services and digital taxation.

Technology companies will have their hands full in 2020 with the implementation of the Personal Data Protection Bill, which has gone to a joint parliamentary committee for a thorough review.

“The Personal Data Protection Bill and the setting up of the Data Protection Authority (DPA) will be the key developments to watch out for the next year. Codes of practice set by the DPA will be critical for businesses and a lot of time will be spent on that,” said Nikhil Narendran, a partner at Trilegal.