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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

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Master Card and Visa are failing, because we have something better in place. BHIM (Bharat Interface for Money) developed by National Payments Corporation of India. - Transferring money from one personal account to any new account (adding a beneficiary account) would take more than 4 hours. - One needs to login each and every time to transfer money. - There is a chance of forgetting password and account being locked o…

> Master Card and Visa are failing, because we have something better in place. Not entirely true, India has made payments cubersome to make a transfer through visa/mc, you need to go through lengthy 3d verification even then some cards are issued with International transaction disabled and there is no way to enable it on those card without changing your card to International debit card. There is no way to purchase an…

Granted that some of the regulations are legacy but some have a utility. And what makes you think advanced countries in Europe or the US is playing a fair game. In the case of Huawei, the minute a non-western company challenges the dominance of western companies, free and fair trade goes into a shell. The rules of engagement like that of the WTO were written when countries like India and China were weak, and they were pretty much written by the west to serve themselves. Let us not even pretend it was some kind of charity. Hoping to rewrite it today and thinking that the terms might be better for the west is insane. India unlike China has a long way to go before it can stand US pressure, but bullying a potential partner like India will make the US regret a decade or two from now. Personally I like Trumpistan, I am tiered of pro-western economists literally selling the country piecemeal.

Re: US tells India it is mulling caps on H1Bs to deter data rules

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Pompeo 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.

In this context, let me mention one point. India does not yet have a data privacy law (it relies on some interpretations of the IT Act). So people's data may be better protected by laws in other countries that have such laws (regardless of how comprehensive they are) than if the data were to reside in India. The co-founder of Paytm (the CEO's brother) has been caught on video saying that it can provide all its custom…

Yes, I agree that India sorely needs comprehensive data protection laws. IIRC the IT rules act only concerns with sensitive personal information which includes bank accounts/cards. Though I'm not sure if individual transactions are covered under this.

Given that MasterCard & Visa are only intermediary's between Indian companies and banks, Indian companies(PayTM, PayU, CCAvenue) already have access to all available data as the one who've initiated the transaction. In fact MasterCard/Visa processing the data outside the US actually increases the exposure of data and no amount of US data protection laws will help.

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