Here’s why Wikipedia is threatened by India's new data protection bill

Wikimedia, which aims to provide access to free knowledge and information, has several problems with the bill.It outlines issues with the setting up of a local India entity, filtering of content among other things.Wikipedia, which allows users to create content online easily is also worried that the bill’s traceability requirements will pose as “a serious threat to freedom of expression”.Wikimedia, the non-profit group that runs Wikipedia, is worried about India’s new data protection law. It has written to Indian IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad about its concerns. Wikimedia, which aims to provide access to free knowledge and information, has a problem with the law which will force it to set up a local entity. Also, it will be subjected to filtering of content among other things. “Yet, even

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