India government to withdraw data bill that alarmed tech giants

The Indian government is withdrawing its long-awaited Personal Data Protection Bill that drew scrutiny from several privacy advocates and tech giants who feared the legislation could restrict how they managed sensitive information while giving government broad powers to access it.
The move comes as a surprise as lawmakers had indicated recently that the bill, unveiled in 2019, could see the “light of the day” soon. New Delhi said Wednesday that the government received dozen of amendments and recommendations from a Joint Committee of Parliament that “identified many issues tha

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