House Panel To Meet Big Tech, IT Ministryon Data Protection
Parliament's IT Committee, headed by Shiv Sena MP Prataprao Jadhav, will meet with technical executives from tech companies Meta (formerly Facebook), Alphabet's Amazon and Google, as well as officials from the IT Ministry to discuss security issues and data confidentiality discuss. .
The panel will travel to Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Pune and Mumbai on Jan. 19-24 and hold several stakeholder talks including on digital payments, according to the documents. Find Paytm, Razorpay, Juspay, American Express, CRED, Coinswitch and Paypal representatives in Bangalore.
Team members will visit shared service centers and meet with public service delivery officials from Prasar Bharati. Companies gathered in Mumbai include Infosys, Tata Consultancy, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Tata Consultancy and HCL.
"The main goal is for interested parties to understand how citizens' data is being protected," said a person familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified.
Before the visit, the committee will hold a meeting in New Delhi in the first week of January to review the Digital Sansad or Digital Parliament project and the functioning of the Post Ministry.
Digital payments and privacy are vital as the government has presented a bill that could have a significant impact on the sector. The draft law has been criticized by many internet freedom advocates as being vague and vague, creating an imbalance between the rights of data owners and those of data stewards.
The new bill has drawn both praise and criticism, first for its ease of managing a dynamic space in a technology-agnostic manner, and second for the significant freedoms it will give governments and government agencies over the use of data. People.
The draft law introduces tacit consent, ie the voluntary provision of personal data that may be used for purposes other than those intended. The regulations apply to personal data uploaded or scanned online and will abolish the data protection authority and instead introduce a government-mandated data protection board.
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