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Google, Twitter to face panel on data protection bill

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Published : Oct 23, 2020, 12:22 PM IST

Representatives of Google, Amazon, Paytm and Twitter have been asked to appear with oral evidence before the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, chaired by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi.

Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill
Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill

New Delhi: Two sittings of the Joint Committee on Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019 will be held on October 28 and 29, as per a notice issued to the members.

While representatives from Twitter and Amazon Web Services will present their oral evidence before the Joint Committee on September 28, those from Paytm and Google will do the same on the following day, as per the Lok Sabha Secretariat notice.

The members of the Joint Committee have been asked to attend the meeting scheduled to be held at the Parliament House.

The Committee was constituted on December 11, 2019.

It has, as per the information from the Parliament's website, Meenakshi Lekhi, SS Ahluwalia, PP Chaudhary, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Derek O' Brien, among others as its members.

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(ANI)

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