Data embassies may only be allowed to store non-personal information

A senior govt official says MeitY plans to draft a separate Policy for Data Embassies, instead of including it in Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022

The government likely to allow only non-personal datasets to be stored in data embassies — the physical data centres of trusted nations which enjoy diplomatic immunity from local laws — as part of an upcoming policy, sources said.
 
 A senior government official said the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) plans to draft a separate policy for data embassies, instead of including it in the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022.
 
Non-personal data refers to any dataset that does not contain information that can be used to identify an individual. These datasets could be consumer shopping trends,