New Delhi

India is in the process of finalising data protection law and supports digitisation without any compromise on data integrity, IT and Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Thursday.

Speaking at the inaugural session of India Mobile Congress 2018, Prasad highlighted the exponential growth in mobile manufacturing in the country, backed by the rising base of smartphone users and internet penetration.

The minister said the Indian market represented a large footfall for social media companies like Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. Stating that Indians had appetite for content in local languages, Prasad said more and more solutions needed to be focused on regional languages.