India's personal data privacy law triggers surveillance fears
The Indian government wants global tech giants like Facebook and Google to store sensitive data of users locally, but critics say this may make users more vulnerable to official surveillance.
Laws in India regarding data privacy were ambiguous for a long time, but in 2017 the country's Supreme Court ruled that the Indian constitution guaranteed a fundamental right to privacy for every citizen.
Recently, however, public debate over the government gathering personal information for India's biometric identification system, Aadhaar, and discussions around data privacy in the EU prompted the Indian government to introduce a Personal Data Protection (PDP) legislation.