Data protection law must be same for both private and government players

HYDERABAD: The proposed Data Protection Bill should not only focus on the common man but should be equally strong for both big private conglomerates as well as on the government itself, said a panellist attending a discussion on the proposed data law by the Free Software Movement of India (FSMI) on Sunday.

In a discussion which was held at IIIT-Hyderabad, Amba Kak, a public policy advisor of Mozilla Firefox, said that the proposed law should be stringent and that personal data should be stored in servers.