BSA in the News

Business Standard, December 17, 2021. The parliamentary joint committee on the Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, 2019, headed by P P Chaudhary, MP, on Thursday presented its report, recommending changes to draft legislation, including altering its name to “Data Protection Bill”. The key proposed changes to the Bill include those on data localisation, having a single data protection authority (DPA) for personal and non-personal data, and provisions for localisation and cross-border flows of data. Read more

Financial Express, December 17, 2021. Industry representatives have raised concerns on certain recommendations of the parliamentary committee on data protection bill, including those around inclusion of non-personal data and expanded data localisation mandates, and said these will harm people’s rights and impact businesses. Read more

Axios, December 16, 2021. "We have different systems for creating and implementing new policies, which sometimes leads one government or another to act more quickly," said Aaron Cooper, vice president of global policy for BSA | The Software Alliance. "But what’s important is that there are similar objectives." Read more

Channel News Asia, December 15, 2021. "Many companies from around the world face a range of cross-border data restrictions in South Korea, and we hope that this agreement will point in a new policy direction," said BSA's Jared Ragland. Read more