Trade groups representing some of the world's biggest firms plan to lobby U.S. officials and Indian lawmakers in a bid to dilute parts of an Indian privacy bill which could hurt businesses, three sources familiar with the plans told Reuters.
The Personal Data Protection Bill, which India's government argues is necessary to protect user privacy, will require companies such as Alphabet Inc's
Google and
Facebook to change how they store and process Indian users' data.
Submitted by the government last week, the bill will be reviewed by a 30-member parliamentary panel.