Companies may get up to 2 years to comply with data law

The government will likely give companies up to two years to be fully compliant with the proposals in the Data Protection Bill after it passes Parliament and becomes law, official sources told ET.

Industry is of the view that since the Bill is modelled on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), large companies, including global Internet giants and Indian information technology companies, may not have to put too much efforts to tweak their systems to comply with the proposed Indian law.