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During an IT Ministry organised consultation with the tech industry on the recently released draft data protection rules 2025, a few concerns stood out: apprehensions over data localisation, consent verification and behavioural tracking of children, and worries over cross-border data flows to foreign jurisdictions.
Under data localisation, the companies are required to store a copy of certain sensitive personal data – like health and financial data – within India, and the export of undefined “critical” personal data from the country is prohibited.
What is Data Localisation?
Data localisation is the practice of storing data on any device that is physically present within the borders of the country where the data is generated. As of now, most of these data are stored, in a cloud, outside India.
Localisation mandates that companies collecting critical data about consumers must store and process them within the borders of the country.
The most important aspect of data localisation is having control over our own data which makes the country more resistant to issues around privacy, information leaks, identity thefts, security etc.