State IT Minister Ponnala Lakshmaiah is pushing for nationwide data protection legislation for India, the Deccan Chronicle reports. In a letter to the union minister for communication and information technology, Lakshmaiah wrote, “India, in its immediate surroundings, has a problem to tackle in the form of a bad reputation that the outsourcing industry has earned abroad because of large-scale thefts in the recent past.” During a visit to the UK, the minister said industry representatives strongly recommended that India take up data protection legislation. “Unlike the U.S. or the European Union, India does not have a Data Protection Act,” said Lakshmaiah, adding that the “need for a specific and stringent legislation” is of “paramount importance.”
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