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<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>SOURCE – INDIAN EXPRESS</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom: 13px; text-align: center;”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”>GS PAPER – 2</span></span></b></span></span></span></p>
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<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”line-height:115%”>CONTEXT</span></b><span style=”line-height:115%”>- According to the results of a survey, majority of MSMEs and start-ups are not comfortable with the draft non-personal data policy in the current form. They believe permitting large businesses and platforms to sell aggregate data for a price will not help them. The survey was conducted by LocalCircles.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”line-height:115%”>HIGHLIGHTS</span></b><span style=”line-height:115%”> –</span></span></span></span></p>
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<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”>The committee had suggested that non-personal data generated in the country be allowed to be harnessed by various domestic companies and entities. The committee had then also suggested setting up of a new authority which would be empowered to monitor the use and mining of such non-personal data.</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
<li style=”margin-left:8px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:150%”><span style=”vertical-align:baseline”><span style=”font-family:"Times New Roman",serif”><span style=”font-family:"Cambria","serif"”><span style=”color:#3e3e3e”>Mandating startups and tech companies to compulsorily share the data they mine with other companies may however, prove counterproductive to the idea of developing a data sharing ecosystem</span></span></span></span></span></span></li>
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<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”line-height:115%”>The proposed mandatory data access policies will likely deter investment and innovation in the Indian market, raising the costs of acquiring such data in the first place while also disincentivising data collection activities, resulting in increased costs for end-users and reduced incentives for developing new technology</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”line-height:115%”>The Krish Gopalakrishnan-headed committee had in its draft classified classified non-personal data into three main categories, namely public non-personal data, community non-personal data and private non-personal data</span></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><b><span style=”line-height:115%”>WHAT IS NON PERSONAL DATA ?</span></b></span></span></span></p>
<p style=”margin-bottom:13px”><span style=”font-size:14px;”><span style=”line-height:115%”><span style=”font-family:Calibri,sans-serif”><span style=”line-height:115%”>The idea of a non-personal data governance framework and a regulator for the same may be “premature and not entirely necessary” in India as of now as the country is yet to have a personal data protection regime in place, startups and tech policy bodies have said in their submissions to the nine-member non-personal data governance committee.</span></span></span></span></p>
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