Amazon faces JPC action over refusal to appear; panel grills FB on data

E-commerce giant Amazon has “declined” the request of the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on Data Protection to appear before it, as “its subject matter experts are based in the US”. The JPC sees this as contempt of Parliament and has decided to take on the e-commerce major.

“The committee in its entirety is of the unanimous view that it will not accept such a response and will take every action in its powers (to compel Amazon to appear),” said Meenakshi Lekhi, chairperson of the JPC. A letter to this effect will go out from her office to the company.

Amazon’s letter declining to depose was shared by her with other members at the end of the JPC meeting on Friday. The company was scheduled to appear before the panel on October 28. Representatives of Paytm, Google, and Twitter have also been summoned the same day.