A Joint Committee of Parliament has issued a notice calling representatives of telecom operators Reliance Jio and Airtel and cab aggregators Ola and Uber to depose before it on the issue of data security. The committee, chaired by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, is examining the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019.

As per the notice, representatives of Reliance Jio Infocomm and Jio Platforms have been called to remove before the panel on two different sittings on November 4. Representatives of Uber and Ola and have been called to appear before the panel the next day. Representatives of Airtel and Truecaller are scheduled to depose before the panel separately on November 6. Representatives of social media platforms Facebook and Twitter and e-commerce major Amazon have already deposed before the panel. Representatives of social media platforms Facebook and Twitter and e-commerce major Amazon have already deposed before the panel. Google and Paytm are scheduled to appear before the panel on October 29. The Personal Data Protection Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha by Minister of Electronics & Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on December 11, 2019. The bill seeks to provide for the protection of personal data of individuals and the establishment of a data protection authority for the same. The bill was later referred to a joint select committee of both Houses of Parliament. The proposed law seeks bar on storing and processing of personal data by entities without the explicit consent of an individual.

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