Indian government likely to cave in on data localisation stance after pressure from US - I've commented on data localisation policies before, I think they add a lot of complexity and act as a big barrier to new startup companies, it's not a feature that is easy to add, in a lot of cases you would have to re-architect the entire application, so effectively it would cement the position of the big tech companies because smaller businesses would not be able to comply with the rules - It's the same the world over, the governments only care about the big guys, from the new EU GDPR laws to data localisation in India, all the legislation being put in place has the effect of making it more difficult for startups, the motto seems to be "if in doubt just beat up the new guys", of course publicly they say they are doing the oppositewww.zdnet.com #