Mozilla CEO: India's lack of data protection laws has harmed its citizens

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https://thenextweb.com/in/2020/06/18/mozilla-ceo-indias-lack-of-data-protection-laws-has-harmed-its-citizens/

By Ivan Mehta
TheNextWeb.com
06/18/2020

Mozilla‘s CEO, Mitchell Baker, said yesterday that India’s lack of data 
protection bill has “increased the harm faced by ordinary Indians”. The 
country’s data protection bill is stuck in draft mode; last we heard of it was 
when the parliamentary committee invited comments on the revised drafted.

Last December, IT minister RS Prasad floated the new draft of the data 
protection bill, which listed some controversial points such as social media 
users verification and forced transfer of non-personal data to the government. 
Just after the bill was released, Mozilla wrote a blog criticizing some of 
these aspects of the draft.

Baker said in a TNW Answers session that current expectations from the 
government listen in the data protection bill poses risk to the average user’s 
data:

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