India’s Digital Data Protection Bill to penalise firms for location tracking without consent: MoS IT

A lawsuit in the US alleging Google’s privacy-breaching location tracking practices could soon become a punishable offence in India including financial penalties, Union minister of state (MoS) for information technology (IT), Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said earlier today. In a tweet citing a penalty of $391.5 million to be faced by Google in the US, the minister tweeted, “This type of ‘misuse’ of customer data violates privacy and data protection expectations.”

This type of "misuse" of custmr data violates #Privacy n #DataProtection expectations

India's #DigitalDataProtection bill will put a stop to this - & ensure that any Platform/Intermediary that does this will face punitive & financial consequences #DigitalIndia #IndiaTechade https://t.co/ierWNweFhn

— Rajeev Chandrasekhar