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<p><font face="Verdana">All,</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">"Free global flow of data" and </font><font
face="Verdana">"data localisation" are two terms employed in
opposition like a war of good against evil. 'Free global flow of
data' is the key mantra of e-commerce proposals at global trade
forums including the WTO, and 'data localisation' a term that is
out-rightly condemned as being sought only by state control
freak developing countries, bent upon data authoritarianism.
Great dangers of the latter no doubt exist, but one is unclear
how they get addressed by sending our data to US and NSA's warm
embrace of it. But there are people in many countries, including
in India, who openly argue that they are happier to have their
data in the US than India, meaning they feel more protected by
the US government than India's. On the other hand, there are
many kinds of domestic economic development imperatives that
require some kinds of data localisation <br>
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<p><font face="Verdana">This IT for Change policy brief attempts to
look data localisation from the angle of ensuring the rule of
law, and domestic digital industry development , '<a
href="https://itforchange.net/sites/default/files/1584/Data_localisation.pdf"
moz-do-not-send="true">Data localisation: A matter of rule of
law and economic development</a> '.</font></p>
<p><font face="Verdana">Broadly based on it, a shorter piece, was
published as an oped in The Hindu today, '<a
href="https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/bringing-data-under-the-rule-of-law/article24988755.ece#comments_24988755"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bringing data under the rule of law</a>
' .</font></p>
<font face="Verdana">The papers propose a more nuanced way </font><font
face="Verdana">to look at data regulation </font><font
face="Verdana">- between unrestrained global flows and unqualified
data localisation -- as almost our entire society and economy
gets digitalised and datafied. <br>
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