Important that India’s regulations provide legal and innovation certainty to firms, Google CEO says • TechCrunch
Google CEO Sundar Pichai said on Monday that India is going through a critical phase as it drafts several key regulations and asserts that it will benefit from an open and connected internet.
India legalize some amendments to the country’s IT rules After a back-and-forth with many tech giants last year, it is in the process of shaping and shipping a number of other key regulatory frameworks that seek to bring about a series of major changes in how it works. telecommunications services, video-on-demand players and companies in other sectors that operate and process consumer data.
On Monday, the Google chief sat down with Indian IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw at the company’s annual event in India to discuss a variety of topics including regulations.
Vaishnaw said the government is working on a series of bills that reflect the reality of the country.
“The Prime Minister has given us the clear objective of creating a comprehensive legal framework. So we’re creating three horizontalities: First, we have the telecom bill for the carriers. The second is the digital protection bill, which focuses on enforcing citizens’ privacy rights. And here it is, the Digital India bill will look at practically everything else that needs to be seen,” he said, adding that all of these bills will become law within 14 to 16 months. next.
Tech giants including Google, Meta and Amazon have request a bunch of changes for a number of proposed bills. During a recent meeting with Meta executives, the Indian government asked the company to make every effort to get government-issued content takedown orders processed within an hour, the Indian news agency reported. MoneyControl previous report.
When asked what he thinks of India’s proposed regulations, Pichai said:
“If you look at the scale at which technology is working and touching so many lives around the world, that to me means that technology needs responsible regulation. I think it’s important for countries to think about how to best protect their citizens. We are engaging constructively.
India has a leadership role here. It’s important to ensure that you’re balancing the protections you offer people and creating innovation frameworks so companies can innovate based on certainty within the regulatory framework.
So I think it’s a pivotal moment in time. But through it all, it is hoped that India can also be the voice of… India will also be a major exporting economy and benefit from the open and connected internet. I think it’s going to be very important to strike that right balance.”
