Amazon snubs Parliamentary committee’s summon, panel can move breach of privilege motion
New Delhi: A parliamentary joint committee which is trying into points of knowledge safety and privateness by social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, Google and others has determined that it’s going to transfer a breach of privilege movement towards US-based e-commerce web site Amazon if a consultant doesn’t seem earlier than the panel on October 28.
The joint committee is led by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi and has 20 members from the Lok Sabha and 10 from the Rajya Sabha.
“Amazon has refused to appear before the panel on October 28 and if no one on behalf of the e-commerce company appears before the panel it amounts to a breach of privilege,” she mentioned, including, “The panel is unanimous in its opinion that coercive action can be suggested to the government against the e-commerce company”.
While, Facebook and Twitter had been additionally reportedly requested to depose earlier than the parliamentary panel which is attempting to hunt “oral evidence” on the problems of knowledge safety and privateness. Twitter too is claimed to have been requested to seem earlier than the panel subsequent week. Also, Google and Paytm representatives have been requested to seem on October 29.
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Meanwhile, Amazon’s public coverage official in response to the parliamentary committee has expressed the corporate’s incapability to seem earlier than the panel as its topic consultants (on information safety) are based mostly abroad and can’t journey due to COVID-19.
Last month, amid extreme criticism of Facebook and the Union authorities over the alleged collusion of Facebook India government Ankhi Das and the BJP, Union Information Technology Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad wrote a hard-hitting letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, blaming the Facebook India administration of alleged bias towards individuals supporting the right-of-center ideology.
The Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 was launched within the Lok Sabha by the Minister of Electronics and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on December 11, 2019. The invoice seeks to offer for cover of private information of people and establishes a Data Protection Authority for a similar.
The Personal Data Protection Bill was later referred to a joint choose committee of each Houses of Parliament. The proposed legislation seeks bar on storing and processing of private information by entities with out the express consent of a person.
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