Why this 77-year-old ex-SC judge is making Google, Amazon, Facebook jittery

B.N. Srikrishna is a genial, 77-year-old former Supreme Court judge who recites Shakespeare and Sanskrit scriptures with equal facility. But he’s making the likes of Google, Amazon and Facebook more than a little nervous.

Srikrishna is leading the effort to draft new data-privacy laws for India that will regulate how tech giants from the U.S. and elsewhere operate in the nation of 1.3 billion. His recommendations carry particular weight because India is already the biggest market for companies like Facebook Inc. and offers enormous potential for dozens more. The committee Srikrishna helms will send its bill to the government this