Data Protection Bill: Amazon to appear before joint parliamentary committee

The parliament committee wants to examine all the stakeholders including Amazon, Facebook and Google to get their perspective about personal data protection issues

E-commerce giant Amazon is expected to appear before a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) looking into the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019. A team of experts from Amazon would make a detailed presentation on Wednesday before the joint committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, according to the sources. 

Earlier it had been learnt that the Jeff Bezos-led firm had expressed inability to appear before the committee. Amazon had informed the committee that its experts were abroad and were unable to travel to India due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The JPC saw this as "breach of privilege of parliament” and had