'Storing Data in Country can safeguard interests'
We cannot control or stop the Facebooks or the Googles or such agents walking into this country,†Cert-IN director Tulika Pandey said.
Mumbai: Citizens cannot be stopped from accessing services of companies amassing data like Facebook and Google and the only way to safeguard interests is to ask them to store the data domestically, a senior official said on Wednesday.
“We cannot control or stop the Facebooks or the Googles or such agents walking into this country,” Cert-IN director Tulika Pandey said.
Similarly, citizens cannot be told that we do not have the adequate mechanisms to safeguard their information being shared “happily” on such sites, she added.
“It is becoming more and more pertinent for governments to start at least making the right mechanisms or regulations for somehow safeguard the data of its citizens within the strongholds of the country itself,” she said.