All these will become part of the ecommerce policy,” an unidentified official was quoted as saying by ET.

For instance, commercial data held by ecommerce companies, anonymised data and community data will reportedly be treated according to their location and processing.

According to the policy draft, infrastructure status would be given to data storage services such as data centres, server firms, towers, tower stations.

India’s ecommerce industry is estimated at around $39 Bn in 2017 and is expected to grow to $200 Bn by 2026.

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