India's revised data protection bill 'promising, clear': Meta's Nick Clegg

'Real process of openness' and listening to feedback in preparing legislation, he says

The Indian government’s revised bill on data protection is a “promising turn of events", said Meta’s global affairs president Nick Clegg on Wednesday in the first reaction by a big technology company to the legislation.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology earlier this month released a revised draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 after discarding a previous version more than three months ago. The new legislation eases the legal mandate for data localisation mandate, which had alarmed many big multinational technology companies.

The internet works on the idea that data flows openly across borders. “In broad