Mozilla, the company best known for the popular Firefox browser, held a round-table discussion titled ‘Privacy Matters’ last month with some of India’s biggest online companies. The discussion saw participation from companies like Zomato, Ola, Practo, Ibibo, Zeotap and others to look into the issue of data privacy and security.
The closed-door discussion is part of a larger Mozilla initiative to initiate a discussion around data privacy with internet companies across the world. Mozilla also launched its own Lean Data Practice website this year as a public resource for organisations trying on how to work with data privacy, security of user data, and prepare security breaches.
In a telephonic interaction with indianexpress.com, Urmika Shah, Lead Product and Data Counsel at Mozilla and was part of the discussion, explained that the company has been conducting such workshops in the US as well, and in countries in the European Union.
According to Shah, it’s not true that companies in India are unaware of the risks when it comes to data privacy or do not know of laws in other parts of world.
“The groups of companies in the discussion are very knowledgeable about the laws, including in other places like the GDPR, and the upcoming law over here. A lot of these companies are already on their own initiatives thinking about privacy and have taken a lot of measures within their services that are more privacy or security protective,” Shah said on her observations from the discussions.
Amba Kak, Mozilla’s Public Policy Advisor in India, said the company has been actively participating in the privacy law discussions and already made submissions to the government of India.
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