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Foreign regulators’ data requests put companies in a legal bind

Foreign regulators’ data requests put companies in a legal bind

Foreign regulators’ data requests put companies in a legal bind


Mayuran Palanisamy, partner at Deloitte India, said companies are increasingly asking what personal data they hold, where it is stored, whether it can be disclosed to an overseas regulator, and what confidentiality, localization, or sector-specific restrictions may apply. “The questions we are seeing are increasingly around how to operationalize compliance, rather than only how to interpret the law,” he said.