Bangladesh's digital future is at a critical juncture as its draft Data Protection Act includes requirements to compel firms to store data locally – a concept known as data localisation. Localisation ...

The importance and use of data in today’s technology-driven world is immense. This is understood by both governments and businesses alike. The cross-border data flow has proven to be an important ...

In line with its earlier versions, the proposed Data Protection Bill, 2021 (2021 Bill) by the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) has advocated data localisation and emphasised on India’s strategic ...

It is imperative for Bangladesh to judiciously navigate the digital fields, carefully assessing the local and global impacts of potential rules and regulations related to data flows and streamlining ...

Visa chief executive Alfred F Kelly Jr believes RBI's mandate on data localisation is not the best solution for addressing concerns related to information security. The CEO was talking about RBI's ...

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules will take a targeted approach to data localisation, affecting only specific categories of personal data and for specific purposes, information ...

Over the last couple of years, data localisation has become a hotly debated issue right from the time the Reserve Bank of India came out with its notification mandating ‘storage of payment system data ...

With effect from July 22, Reserve Bank of India indefinitely barred Mastercard Inc. from issuing new debit or credit cards to Indian customers for violating local data storage rules. In 2018, RBI had ...

The data centre industry has attracted close to USD 977 million in private equity and strategic investments since 2008. Data centres, which have seen a massive growth on the back of data localisation ...

Although the study focused on data localisation policies worldwide, India found several mentions in the context of data sovereignty and data localisation for censorship and surveillance. Countries ...