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Contrary to most industry insiders’ opinion, Chinese tech giant Alibaba recently revealed that they backed India’s draft on data localisation. To the immense surprise of its global competitors, Simon Hu, President of Alibaba Cloud said that the core principle of their company was “respecting data security and privacy”, which is what they are doing, by supporting the draft proposed by the Srikrishna Committee.
The new policies by India are a part of the recently-released draft on the Personal Data Protection Bill 2018, which has already drawn a mixed response from the industry.
Speaking at the Alibaba Cloud Computing conference in Hangzhou, Hu told a leading financial daily that while it is widely known that not all tech giants are in support of the data localisation move, Alibaba was “different”. He said, “Our views are different from other companies. We have set up a data centre. We are also building a data team that will help provide big data and AI services to Indian companies.”
Earlier this month, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had reportedly written a letter talking about his concerns on cross-border global data transfer. Pichai had written a letter to Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union Minister for Electronics and Information Technology on 5 September, entreating him for a free flow of data across borders. He also reportedly said that such a step will encourage global companies to contribute to India’s digital economy as well as benefit Indian startups that are looking at expanding globally.
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