Many such bills are useless and India isn't a niche market for many things. So cos. dont give a damn!
Wouldn't be surprised if there was a bit of ping-pong involved in the government wanting backdoor access to the data, like they did with the VPN companies. The bill might generally end up being bad for business but then it is currently the wild-wild west for data collectors in India. It is not as if these bills are being driven be idealism, that the EU somewhat attempts at doing.
It started with that but then it kept on being diluted. The scope of data is much larger than GDPR and specifying jail terms for executives in the bill itself makes it a no-go for private companies. On top of that government agencies are exempted, so they can keep abusing data as much as they want and the government itself can request private data, which again can be abused.
If govt arranges some hackathon and someone puts up this scenario, then maybe* there might be some action.
What did they do with VPN companies ? Seems missed this ?
I dont this shall ever happen in India.. EU laws are way too strict for this media moguls..
This https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/27/india-delays-strict-new-vpn-rules-by-3-months/
Those phones don’t transmit data directly to CCP servers. They sit within India which has mirrors/data centers with neutral countries or regions like Singapore or HK and finally mainland. Data probably hops a couple of countries before reaching its destination.
Afaik security personnel while on deployment use custom phones with custom software not belonging to any particular brand. So only the govt would know their activities, not anyone else.
Mi cloud is still here. It's a crucial part like Apple Cloud or Google gmail.
The Chinese companies can operate if they obey the rule of the land, but they have repeatedly shown that their allegiance is to the CCP. Even when the regulations were in place like the FEMA guidelines, they managed to bypass it and a data security law will also not be obeyed.
My point was, everyone is stealing our data. It's not just Chinese. Also it's not true that if everyone stops using chinese phones, the CCP wouldn't get our data. They can get our data from other means just as easily. We can put a stop to the data harvesting only if we all go back to typewriters. There's no other way.
Indeed and that is why you need protections in place. The reference to CCP is mainly because this is a state government actively forcing its companies to comply or cease to exist and is thus much larger in scale. The Chinese apps did much worse and in that sense the ban on them is justified.
