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By Sankalp Phartiyal

Sep 20 2019 6:55AM

As government draws up a data privacy law and pushes local data storage.

India tells tech firms to protect user privacy, prevent abuse

Technology firms must protect user privacy and prevent abuse of their platforms, India's IT minister said on Thursday, speaking as the government draws up a data privacy law and seeks to push companies to store more data locally. The Information and Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad ...

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