Thursday, April 28, 2022

India's personal data protection bill may threaten innovation, growth: USTR

WTO,Trade Facilitation Agreement , global trade, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade , GATT,Doha Round, Intellectual Property Rights ,

The US on Thursday raised worries on India's Personal Data Protection Bill and draft Non-Personal Data Governance Framework guaranteeing that these might actually compromise advancement and financial development.

In its most recent Special 301 Report, the US Trade Representative (USTR) has kept India in the need watch list keeping up with that India stays one of the world's most provoking significant economies regarding assurance and authorization of protected innovation.

"In December 2021, a Joint Parliamentary Committee delivered a report prescribing changes to the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 (PDPB) that could subvert significant IP assurances in India. Among these proposals was expansion of the Bill's degree to incorporate further guideline of non-individual information as opposed to resolving that issue under discrete regulation. The United States on a few events and in different fora has raised IP concerns with respect to the likely execution of India's information administration system. These worries are especially intense given India's obsolete and inadequate lawful structure for safeguarding proprietary innovations. On this and other potential regulation influencing IP, the United States urges India to embrace a straightforward interaction that gives partners adequate chance to remark," it added. 

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