US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
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Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#2Pompeo said the Trump administration would push for free flow of data across borders, not just to help U.S. companies but also to secure consumers’ privacy.
How does 'free flow of data across borders' help secure consumers' privacy?
Setting caps on H1Bs is the US governments prerogative though this will have adverse impact on US-India relationship.
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#3If you don't let us steal all your user data, we won't brain drain your country. Sounds like a good deal for India other than the remittances sent back by citizens.
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#4>The move, however, was not solely targeted at India, the source said.
>“The proposal is that any country that does data localization, then it (H-1B visas) would be limited to about 15% of the quota
It does sound targeted at India and perhaps China because they are the largest countries with English speaking populations and take a large percent of visas. I doubt the European countries or most other countries will be affected by this since they have way smaller populations and fewer people looking to work in the US.
Anyway I am not totally opposed to restricting new H1B visas to 15% since work based green cards are 7% max per nationality causing long delays. They just need to make sure that people waiting for green cards close to a decade while on H1B are not affected by this.
However, if this does happen, it will accelerate offshoring to India tremendously and end up benefiting work immigration friendly countries like Canada. Microsoft already has a large campus right across the border in Vancouver, and other companies will follow suit with setting up in Canada and India.
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#5if free flow of data across countries helps in privacy then HIPAA should not have rule that healthcare data of US citizens need not be stored only in US. Will USGOV relax that norm ?
the Indian govt rules are about storing financial data within the country and not gmail data.
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#6If you don't let us steal all your user data, we won't brain drain your country. Sounds like a good deal for India other than the remittances sent back by citizens.
This was pretty much how I read it.
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#7The efficacy of this as a deterrent seems to depend on the notion that India would like its citizens to be able to obtain H1 visas from the US.
Is that the case?
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#8The efficacy of this as a deterrent seems to depend on the notion that India would like its citizens to be able to obtain H1 visas from the US. Is that the case?
Could go either way (more or less). So probably
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#9Pompeo said the Trump administration would push for free flow of data across borders, not just to help U.S. companies but also to secure consumers’ privacy. How does 'free flow of data across borders' help secure consumers' privacy? Setting caps on H1Bs is the US governments prerogative though this will have adverse impact on US-India relationship.
> How does 'free flow of data across borders' help secure consumers' privacy?
This is not about consumer privacy. This is about corporate profit. Visa, Mastercard and other US banks want to maintain fewer datacenters around the world. They already have them in the US (because US law) and they possibly also feed that data to US govt.
With such localization laws, US corporations are having to invest in other countries. They are lobbying to bully other countries for profit and this administration is ready to support profits at any cost.
Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules
#10As an Indian - good! This will help the local IT industry tremendously.