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In Donald Trump era, Indians will no longer get any privacy protection


Donald Trump is slowly turning the clock back on everything progressive that the Obama administration did in the last 10 years. The new US president has now signed a new executive order that ends whatever little privacy protection the US offered to non-citizens like people in other countries, including in India.
The executive order notes that the federal "agencies (in the US) shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure that their privacy policies exclude persons who are not United States citizens or lawful permanent residents from the protections of the Privacy Act regarding personally identifiable information."
Although there are no direct implications for people in India as far as the US law or directives are concerned, it is worth noting the Gmail, apps and smartphones that we use often come from the US companies and these companies collect data that the US government can seek from them. For the data belonging to a US citizen, there will be a different mechanism to access that while for the data that belongs to a non-US citizen -- think your Gmail data -- different and more lax set of rules will apply.
Although the non-US citizens anyways don't enjoy any significant privacy protection on the web, which is dominated by the US companies and almost all web data flows through US-based web infrastructure, after the NSA-related leaks there was change in the air. Former US president Barack Obama signed a new directive a few years with an aim to protect "the privacy and civil liberties of all persons, whatever their nationality and regardless of where they might reside".
The new Trump executive order is also expected to hit the EU and the US negotiations of digital privacy. The two regions have a data-sharing pact, which allows the US companies to carry out their business in an easier manner, but after the NSA-related leaks the EU is seeking a privacy shield from the US.
The new privacy rules may also cause some problems for the big tech companies like Google, Facebook, Cisco (which incidentally is hoping to supply hi-tech gear for the Indian Army) and similar other companies that often collect a lot of data from their users across the world. These companies store this data in the US and after Trump's latest directive it seems these companies can be forced to reveals this data by the US government with ease.

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