Joint Parliamentary Committee on data bill calls Facebook officials for deposition on August 10

The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) that is examining the Personal Data Protection Bill has called representatives from social media behemoth Facebook for deposition in its second meeting that is slated for August 10.

Representatives from industry body Assocham, Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Centre and L&L Partners-Law Office have also been invited for the meeting.

In its last meeting, the committee had called officials from the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY), Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) to brief it on the Bill provisions. ET reported earlier that the committee had reached out to firms such as Amazon and Microsoft, tech industry lobby group Nasscom and some academic institutions, ahead of depositions on the landmark Bill.