10/8/21, 4:37 PM No plans to sell govt-owned non-personal data, RS Prasad informs Lok Sabha | MediaNama

    REPOR DONA CAREE EVEN CUSTOMER LOG IN

TS TE RS TS SUPPORT

News Focus Discover  

Discover more: Kris Gopalakrishnan, Non Personal Subscribe

Data, Parliament Questions, Personal
Data Protection Bill, Ravi Shankar Prasad

No Plans To Sell Govt-

Owned Non-Personal Data,
RS Prasad Informs Lok
Sabha
By Aditi Agrawal Published December 5, 2019    

Search SEARCH

LATEST HEADLINES

Indian government looks to

blockchain for managing multiple
digital IDs October 8, 2021

There is presently no proposal to sell Dubai’s ruler used Pegasus

non-personal data (NPD) that belongs spyware to spy on his ex-wife
Haya, confirms UK’s High Court
to various government departments,
October 8, 2021
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad
informed the Lok Sabha on December
https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-no-plans-to-sell-govt-non-personal-data-prasad-lok-sabha/ 1/5
10/8/21, 4:37 PM No plans to sell govt-owned non-personal data, RS Prasad informs Lok Sabha | MediaNama

4 in a written response. He also

informed the lower house of the Chattisgarh shuts down internet
in three districts amidst
committee of experts that MeitY had
communal tensions October 8,
formed in September to look into
2021
non-personal data, and come up with
a related data governance framework.
Telegram gains record 70 million
The same day, the Indian Express new users in one day owing to
reported, that the new Data Facebook outage October 7, 2021
Protection Bill “mandates companies
to give the government access to any All about Telangana’s plan to use
non-personal data — anonymised facial recognition, blockchain for
data like traffic patterns or voting via smartphones October 7,
2021
demographic information — which
many companies use to fund their
business model”. This will reportedly
be used by the government to better
MediaNama’s mission is to help build a
deliver services and evidence-based digital ecosystem which is open, fair,
policy. Kris Gopalakrishnan, who is global and competitive.
heading the committee of experts on
non-personal data, had earlier said
that such a non-personal data VIEWS
framework would aid in delivering
data-driven services. Given that the
PDP Bill will now reportedly deal with
non-personal data, it is not clear
what the new committee will do.

The PDP Bill was approved by the

Union Cabinet yesterday, and is Mergers & Acquisitions By Big
expected to be tabled in this Tech: Does India Need To Tweak
Its Competition Rules?
Parliamentary session.
The US and other countries'
retreat from a laissez-faire
approach to regulating markets

Submissions presents India with a rare

opportunity.

made on PDP
https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-no-plans-to-sell-govt-non-personal-data-prasad-lok-sabha/ 2/5
10/8/21, 4:37 PM No plans to sell govt-owned non-personal data, RS Prasad informs Lok Sabha | MediaNama

Bill will not be

made public
NCP MP Supriya Sule had also asked
for the submissions made regarding What Does The Litecoin-Walmart
the Personal Data Protection Bill. Partnership Hoax Tell Us About
The Need For Crypto Regulations?
Prasad refused to give those details,
deeming them “confidential” and “not When news that Walmart would
available for public dissemination”. soon accept cryptocurrency
The consultation process for the turned out to be fake, it also
formulating of the PDP Bill has been became a teachable moment.

opaque. Earlier too, MeitY had

refused to make these comments,
received from over 600 entities,
public. When the ministry sought
additional comments in August 2019,
no public consultation followed.

[embeddoc Data Security Council Of India

Establishes Privacy Guidelines For
url=”https://www.medianama.com/ Healthcare Sector
wp-content/uploads/AU2602.pdf”
The DSCI's guidelines are
download=”all”]
patient-centric and act as a data
privacy roadmap for healthcare
A D V E R T I S E M E N T. S C R O L L T O C O N T I N U E R E A D I N G .
service providers.

Data Leaks – Trading Internal

Control For External
Vulnerability: Russian Edition
In this excerpt from the book, the
authors focus on personal data
and autocracies. One in
https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-no-plans-to-sell-govt-non-personal-data-prasad-lok-sabha/ 3/5
10/8/21, 4:37 PM No plans to sell govt-owned non-personal data, RS Prasad informs Lok Sabha | MediaNama

Discover more: Kris Gopalakrishnan, particular – Russia.  Autocracies

Non Personal Data, Parliament Questions, always prioritize information
Personal Data Protection Bill, control...
Ravi Shankar Prasad

WRITTEN BY
Aditi Agrawal
Send me tips at
The Use Of Facial Recognition
aditi@medianama.com. Email
Technology For Policing In Delhi:
for Signal/WhatsApp.
An Empirical Study Of Potential
Religion-Based Discrimination
By Jai Vipra, Senior Resident
Fellow at Vidhi Centre for Legal
Policy The use of new technology,
including facial recognition
technology (FRT) by police...

You May Also Like

Advertise
ment: 135
Digital Job
Listings At
JobNama –
9th June
2010
Ola, Uber Twitter Search
Drivers Takes Medianama  Queries
Say They Down JUNE 9, 2010 For
Are Tweets Internatio
Exhausted, From MP, nal Air
Fear Being MLA, Tickets
Wiped Out Editor Growing
Criticising At 43% –
Soumyarendra Handling Google
Barik  Of
https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-no-plans-to-sell-govt-non-personal-data-prasad-lok-sabha/ 4/5
10/8/21, 4:37 PM No plans to sell govt-owned non-personal data, RS Prasad informs Lok Sabha | MediaNama

FEBRUARY 24, Pandemic

2021 Upon Sneha Johari
Governme  MARCH 23,
2016
nt Request

Aroon Deep 
APRIL 24, 2021

Con
MediaNama is tact
the premier Subscribe to
source of our daily Abo
ut
information newsletter
and analysis on Eve
Name:* nts
Technology
Policy in India. Please introduce yo Spo
More about nsor
MediaNama, Subs
Your email address:*
and contact crib
information, How can we reach e
here. Care
* ers
I agree to Sup
port
© 2008-2021 receive newsletters
from MediaNama Ter
Mixed Bag
ms
Media Pvt. Ltd. Of
Developed By Subscribe Use
PixelVJ
Priv
Not now, thanks acy
Polic
No spam, ever. Promise. y
Email Terms & Privacy

https://www.medianama.com/2019/12/223-no-plans-to-sell-govt-non-personal-data-prasad-lok-sabha/ 5/5