In this article for Financial Express, Prakhar Misra, Senior Associate, and Sharmadha Srinivasan, Associate, write about MeitY’s report on regulating non-personal data and recommend changes to improve its conceptual framework.
Excerpts below:
“Last month, A report on regulating non-personal data was released by MeitY. The report audaciously tries to reign in the dominance of technology companies. Yet, considering the urgency that the report purports, its conceptual framework has a long way to go. It is based on an attractive, but impractical idea—community data. The report does well in parts, but it would benefit immensely from a better definition of communities, and the basis of their ownership of, and rights to, non-personal data.”
Read the full article here.
Note: This work was done by the author/s when they were a part of the IDFC Institute and is republished here with permission.
