Amazon has expressed its inability to appear before the Parliament Committee looking into the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, saying their officials are unable to travel to India due to the Coronavirus pandemic, sources said on Friday.
According to sources, the e-commerce giant had sent a letter to the committee expressing its inability to appear for the meeting scheduled on Oct 28 saying their experts are abroad & unable to travel to India amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The committee members are unhappy with the letter by Amazon expressing its inability to appear on Oct 28 & the Joint committee has taken it very seriously & decided that if Amazon doesn't appear in the meeting, coercive action may be initiated against it, sources said.
Meanwhile, social media giant Facebook has made a detailed presentation before the Joint Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill. Facebook's representation was made by two officials who attended the meeting today.
The representatives informed the committee about the company's data protection policy & answered several questions asked by the Committee members about the company's revenue, their spendings on data protection among others.
The Committee also asked FB officials about the share of the money the company is spending to safeguards personal data.
FB officials were unable to answer some of the question put forth by the committee, after which they assured to submit their response in written form.
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