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Indonesia’s Constitutional Court dealt another blow to the free expression and online privacy rights of the country’s 191 million internet users, ruling that the government can lawfully block internet access during periods of social unrest. The October decision is the latest chapter in Indonesia’s...

PHOTO: 青 晨 The pandemic caused individuals and companies alike to alter or check their normal security and data protection practices. In 2019, I couldn't imagine providing my name and mobile phone number to restaurant hosts — that would then be written on a long and exposed paper list of other diners, too — to get a table inside. Nor could I have imagined logging, recording and sharing the health data of myself and others, to facilitate contact tracing. On the corporate side, many organizations accelerated their journeys to the cloud, partially to enable their decentra...

Summary Data localization refers to various policy measures that restrict data flows by limiting the physical storage and processing of data within a given jurisdiction’s boundaries. Multiple countries have adopted localization policies to combat multiple concerns over the free flow of data. A vital question, then, is whether any particular variant of data localization would help the Indian government meet its multiple stated objectives for considering such a policy course. There are four key types of localization variants. These include (a) conditional localization that entails a local sto...

Reliance Jio To Invest $950 Million In Uttar Pradesh To Build Data Centre Powered By Renewable Energy Source: Jagran Reliance Jio Infocomm Ltd is set to invest $950 million to develop a data centre in Uttar Pradesh, Hindustan Times reports. Moreover, this centre will be powered by the company’s own renewable energy plant. Uttar Pradesh Cabinet Minister for MSME Sidarth Nath Singh confirmed this news as he claimed that a 20 acre plot has been designated to Reliance at a cost of Rs 7000 crore for this project. “The centre will consist of six interconnected data centre buildings off...