E-commerce giant Amazon refused to appear before Parliament’s Joint Committee on the Data Protection Bill on October 28 and this amounts to a violation of privileges, the panel chairman and BJP deputy said on Friday, Meenakshi Lekhi. Lekhi said “the panel is unanimous in its opinion that enforcement action against the e-commerce company can be suggested to the government.
“Amazon has refused to appear before the panel on October 28 and if no one on behalf of the e-commerce company comes before the panel, that amounts to a violation of privileges,” he told PTI. Meanwhile, Facebook’s chief of policy, Ankhi Das, appeared before the panel on the issue of data security on Friday.
Representatives of Facebook India received some difficult and penetrating questions from panel members, the sources said. During the meeting, a member suggested that the social media giant should not make inferences from its users’ data to obtain commercial benefits from its advertisers.
The panel convened officials from the microblogging site Twitter on October 28, and Google and Paytm on October 29.
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