Government should have separate data policy from e-commerce, say stakeholders

Stakeholders of India’s e-commerce ecosystem have suggested the government for separating the norms for data protection and data regulation through a new policy instead of integrating it with the e-commerce policy in the offing. More than a dozen representatives including Reliance Industries, Microsoft, Amazon, Ola, Uber, Snapdeal, MakeMyTrip, Netflix, CAIT, AIOVA, Vyapari Mandal, UrbanClap etc., shared their comments on Friday over the draft e-commerce policy in a meeting with senior officials of the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) that was chaired by the department’s additional secretary Shailendra Singh.

“We suggested that the policy needs to be split into two – one should be the e-commerce policy and the other should be the business data policy which will govern data for all categories.