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Why not a GDPR for India?

Why not a GDPR for India? After the recent scandal from Cambridge Analytica, millions of people are concerned over the privacy of their data and so are the Indians. India, one of the biggest markets of Facebook is most exciting market for such companies to test their concepts on artificial intelligence and machine learning. Cheap internet, wide adoption of smartphones and a huge young population totally unaware of the consequences of using the unsafe internet has set the internet product companies to exploit high-value Intel and data generated from India in a much easier way. I will start today with where does India stand in the world of “world wide web or internet” usage. Below are some figures on the number of internet user in millions globally. Number of Internet users in millions As the data shows, India stands second in terms of the number of Internet users and it’s increasing at a very rapid rate. Though I must mention that at the moment, India has one of the