Major relief for Facebook, Google & others: Data storage norms for big tech firms may be eased

The government is likely to bring changes in the Data Protection Bill, in a manner that only companies based in countries sharing land border with India, need to store consumer data within the country.

Such a move would be a big relief for US-based big tech firms like Facebook, Google, etc, who have been opposed to stringent domestic data storage norms proposed in the Bill in its current form.