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Data Protection Bill: Here's what it means for Indian startups

The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Data Protection Bill was tabled in the parliament on Thursday. The committee has called for a single data protection authority for personal and non-personal data, stricter data localisation norms and also recommended that social media platforms be treated as publishers of content.

By Mugdha Variyar   | Shruti Mishra  Dec 17, 2021 9:10:07 PM IST (Updated)

The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) report on the Data Protection Bill was tabled in the parliament on Thursday.
The committee has called for a single data protection authority for personal and non-personal data, stricter data localisation norms and also recommended that social media platforms be treated as publishers of content.
To discuss the implications of the bill on startup sector, CNBC-TV18 spoke to Ashish Aggarwal, Head of Public Policy at NASSCOM and Nikhil Narendran, Partner for Telecom, Media & Technology at Trilegal.