Besides this, even the ministry of consumer affairs has rolled out ecommerce guidelines to protect the consumers shopping online.

But the commerce ministry, which is working on the ecommerce guidelines, is reportedly in touch with the IT ministry over the personal data protection bill to ensure that there is minimum overlaps in the two bills.

As per an ET report, the commerce ministry will soon provide a recommendation in regards to the governance of data.

The DPIIT reportedly believes that the committee should look into critical data such as military, biological and genomic data, and not deal with ecommerce data.

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