Nasscom, other bodies oppose DPDP Rules on cross-border data transfer ban

Industry body Nasscom has opposed government’s plan to restrict cross-border data transfer by significant data fiduciaries, asserting that the proposal in the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules “risks causing unintended uncertainty on international data transfers.”

“Moreover, the ability of such a restriction to afford meaningful additional safeguards to the processing of personal data remains, at best, questionable,” Nasscom said.