The government is in consultation with the industry to further shorten the compliance timeline – from the current 12 to 18 months – and will soon issue an amendment to that end, IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said Monday. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW VIDEO

Vaishnaw, while responding to a question from The Indian Express on why the government had afforded Big Tech companies and start-ups the same compliance timeline, even though the former already have systems to adhere to international privacy laws, said, “That is something we are talking to the industry about. It is right that big companies already follow laws like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will compress the timeline. We will amend the law”.

The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) Friday notified the long a

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