India, Aug. 8 -- Minister of State for Communications Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar has said that the network data, traffic and other details accumulated by Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet service will be locally stored in India.

In a written reply, the minister informed the Rajya Sabha, "Security conditions, inter-alia, include the establishment of earth station gateway(s) in India for providing satellite-based communication services with no user traffic originating from or destined for India to be routed through any gateway located outside India, no copying and decryption of the Indian data outside the country, and the Indian user traffic is not to be mirrored to any system/server located abroad."

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