Concerned about behaviour of some Big Tech firms: Piyush Goyal
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Last Updated: Feb 18, 2021, 09:12 AM IST
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Piyush Goyal added that India is concerned about big corporations holding a lot of data of Indian citizens and that data often being used by those firms for cross businesses or across their different sectors.
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Piyush Goyal
New Delhi:Commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said there were concerns about the behaviour of some big tech companies including some from the US that were not willing to adhere to the law of the land here. At a USIBC event, Goyal also said that he will engage with the new United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai to try and put together a fresh trade package. “The old one is now off the table,” he said.
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