India's lower house of parliament has approved a bill that will ease data compliance regulations for major global tech companies such as Google, Microsoft and Meta, as well as local firms seeking international expansion. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 targets exports of data sourced from India, allowing companies to do so except to countries prohibited by the government. The bill currently requires government consent prior to Big Tech companies collecting personal data and prevents them from selling it for reasons not listed in the contract. The updates to the bill would reduce compliance requirements for companies, but it still needs to pass through the upper parliamentary house before it is finalized.