Microsoft outage: Ola’s Bhavish Aggarwal bats for stringent data localisation norms

Ride-hailing firm Ola’s founder Bhavish Aggarwal who has previously been vocal against the dominance of foreign companies like Microsoft and Google in India batted for data localisation in the context of Microsoft’s global outage. Currently, India’s data protection law (which is yet to be enforced) allows cross-border data flow except to countries blacklisted by the Centre.

“The government needs to recognise the risk of our data residing globally and bring more stringent data localisation norms and action to address these risks,” he said, in a post on microblogging site X (formerly Twitter).