Will finalise data protection law very soon: Ravi Shankar Prasad

Bengaluru: Union IT and Communications Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday said the government was very keen to promote India as a very big centre of the data economy and would finalise a data protection law very soon. “I’m very keen to promote India as a very big centre of the data economy. Data is going to drive the digital economy. It is also going to drive international commerce,” he said.

Addressing the Bengaluru Tech Summit, 2020 (BTS2020) virtually, he said India produces huge data and the digital ecosystem, like mobile phones and Aadhaar, is producing data.

“We are going to finalise a data protection law very soon.