For better compliance, tech transfer, Govt to ease data localisation norms

The Centre could drop the contentious data localisation norms from the new data protection Bill and add these rules to the revamped version of the broader Information Technology Act, which the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) is working on, The Indian Express has learnt.

The localisation norms, criticised by Big Tech companies as well as start-ups for being too “compliance intensive”, could be relaxed by allowing cross-border data flows to “trusted geographies”, it is learnt.

A senior government official said that data localisation could find a place in the upcoming Digital India Bill — the proposed successor to the Information Technology Act, 2000.