Government should have separate data policy from e-commerce, say stakeholders
Stakeholders of India's e-commerce ecosystem said that there should be a separate policy governing data norms from the draft e-commerce policy that aims to regulate Indian e-commerce that is dominated by Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart.
- Stakeholders of India’s e-commerce ecosystem have suggested the government for separating the norms for data protection and data regulation through a new policy instead of integrating it with the e-commerce policy in the offing.
- More than a dozen representatives including Reliance Industries, Microsoft , Amazon , Ola, Uber, Snapdeal , MakeMyTrip, Netflix, CAIT, AIOVA, Vyapari Mandal, UrbanClap etc., shared their comments on Friday over the draft e-commerce policy in a meeting with senior officials of the department for promotion of industry and internal trade (DPIIT) that was chaired by the department’s additional secretary Shailendra Singh.
- We suggested that the policy needs to be split into two – one should be the e-commerce policy and the other should be the business data policy which will govern data for all categories.
- “Microsoft said that startups it works with in India access information through various servers abroad to develop their business solutions.