Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Friday 17 November 2023

India Dataset Platform = www.IndiaDataCustodian,gov.in ?

 


 

Context :

Centre considers seeking access to anonymised data of big tech firms ……15 Nov 2023


Extract :

The Centre is considering issuing a directive to big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon to share anonymised personal data in their possession with a government-backed database, The Indian Express has learnt.


The move, if finalised, could see these companies claim intellectual property rights over such data, and initiate discussions around the ownership of such data.


The government has long been interested in this issue since such datasets form the bedrock of artificial intelligence (AI) models. Under the upcoming Digital India Bill, the successor to the Information Technology Act, 2000, the IT Ministry is understood to have added a provision which will mandate big tech companies to deposit all the non-personal data they hold to the India datasets platform, a senior government official said, requesting anonymity since the draft is not public yet.


In its most basic form, anonymised personal data, or non-personal data, is any data set that does not contain personally identifiable information. It could include aggregated information, such as the overall health data of a particular demography, weather and climate data of an area, and traffic data, among others


We will sign a contract with these companies when we join their platform, which includes their terms of service and privacy policy.


The Digital India Bill will propose that under the terms of service, when a user agrees that a company can use their anonymised personal data, that particular information will mandatorily have to be deposited to the India datasets platform,” the official said.


The Centre’s idea is that big tech companies have reaped dividends by building algorithms on the basis of Indians’ non-personal data, and that they cannot claim exclusive ownership over it.


The Digital India Bill is a key part of a comprehensive legal framework which encompasses various legislative measures such as the recently-notified Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, the draft Indian Telecommunication Bill, 2022, and a policy addressing the governance of non-personal data. The Bill, however, is unlikely to be released this year.


As per a report released in October by a working group constituted by the IT Ministry, the India datasets program is a “unified national data sharing and exchange platform to enable various data sharing and exchange use cases of all stakeholders including but not limited to Central/State/UT Governments, public sector undertaking, private sector companies, industry bodies, MSMEs (micro, small and medium enterprises) and startups, academia and researchers, civil society and media organisations, open technology communities, etc.”


Non-personal data held by the Indian datasets platform could also be monetised, the report suggests.


 The platform, as per the report, will play a crucial role in boosting the artificial intelligence ecosystem in India by providing a “robust foundation” for data-driven innovation and development. In May 2022, the IT Ministry had released the draft National Data Governance Framework Policy under which it merely encouragedprivate companies to share non-personal data with startups and Indian researchers.


During a press briefing earlier in October this year, Minister of State for IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, had signalled a change in the government’s stance on non-personal data ownership. Responding to a question by The Indian Express about whether the government has changed its position from encouraging private companies to share non-personal data with the datasets platform, he said, “I can not yet tell you what that is, but certainly there has been a change in our stance.”


The idea of harnessing economic benefits from aggregated non-personal datasets was first proposed by a MeitY-appointed committee chaired by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan.

 

 

My Take :

 

…. first proposed by a MeitY-appointed committee chaired by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan. ?

 

Ø  Thank You, Kris Gopalkrishnanji………………… 12 Nov 2021

 

Extract :


What for ?

For “ in principle “ acceptance of my suggestion for creation

of IndiaDataCustodian authority

 

Kris Panel has accepted that,

 

      #  Personal Data can be treated / accepted as NON PERSONAL DATA, if it

          gets ”  Anonymized and Aggregated “

           #  Such NPD has a MARKET PRICE and can be SOLD / PURCHASED by

         companies and government

      #  Govt to set up several DATA TRUSTS , which can BUY (  and SELL ? ) –

          data sets

 

Ø  What disappoints me is that in the draft report there is no provision for 

 

#  Treating every citizen to be the sole / absolute OWNER of his PERSONAL

     DATA , even if it is part of an Anonymized / Aggregated DATA SET

#  Every time anyone ( Company /  Individual / Govt ) buys a NPD DATA

    SET from anyone , the citizen will get a share of the PURCHASE

    PRICEif that DATA SET includes his own profile

 

    

Dear Shri P P Chaudhuryji

( Chairman, Joint Parliamentary Committee on Data Protection ),


Kris Panel has laid out the broad frame-work


But a LAW needs to spell out the MECHANISM / the digital PLATFORM, which will firmly REGULATE / MONITOR / ENFORCE, the citizen’s right to Personal Data Ownership and monetizing that data


To enable citizen to exercise these fundamental “ Data Ownership Rights, I urge

your Committee to consider implementation of my following suggestion :

 

 SARAL ( Single  Authentic  Registration for Anywhere  Login )………10 Feb 2019 

 

Extract :

 

What does that stand for ?

 Single Authentic  Registration(for) Anywhere  Login

 

Advantage ?

No filling up / editing, your personal data, again and again, on hundreds of web

sites.  Just ONE site !


Preventing web sites to demand – and use – your personal data which they don’t

need


    Enabling users to make money by “selling “their personal data

  

How much money can user ( possibly ) make by selling personal data ?


$ 4  from each website ( x 100 incidences / month = $ 400 pm = Rs 30,000 per month )

  

What DATA will be submitted on   www.IndiaDataCustodian.gov.in    ?


    Data will be submitted at 10 DATA LEVELS – described in detail at :

Only Answer :  a  Statutory  Warning   ………………..  10  Nov  2018  

 

How will other web sites “Access “ these data of a user ?


      All web sites / mobile apps will enable a user to login by clicking ,

“ Log me with  www.IndiaDataCustodian.gov.in “


     No user will need to submit any personal data directly on ANY web site / mobile app


     Each user would need to select / specify ( on IndiaDataCustodian.gov.in ),

    which web site ( or type of web site ) can be granted  “ access “ to which DATA

    LEVEL , for free


    User will also select / specify which DATA LEVEL can be “ sold “ to what kind of

    web sites


    The “ Sale Price “  for each DATA LEVEL will be fixed by,

    www.IndiaDataCustodian.gov.in


   The “ for sale “ DATA will NOT reveal the identity of any user.


    It will be always anonymized / aggregated for a few hundred / few thousands

    users, based on “demographic profile “ configured by the buyer web site online 

   ( on IndiaDataCustodian.gov.in ) and the purchase price paid online ( DBT to

    each User’s Bank account )

      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     Dear Shri P P Chaudharyji,

 

Your Committee meeting yesterday could not approve the DRAFT since various

 Committee Members raised following questions ( source :  Consensus eludes

 panel on Data Bill  /  Business Line   / 13 Nov 2021 ) :


Ø  We had unanimously recommended that these provisions are not enough and it should be made stronger. But the new draft does not have those provisions to our surprise


Ø  We asked the Chairman whose interest is the panel supposed to protect ? Of fiduciaries or citizens ?


Ø  It seemed to us that the Centre has a specific agenda to protect the data fiduciaries. We told him that if we continue like this, the committee will become a laughing stock


Ø  We should not delay it further. But it should not be a half baked law which will not strengthen the privacy of citizens. We will submit the report in the first week of winter session


Ø  There will be dissent notes to the report and to the Bill. Holistic views on the Bills will be given

Ø  Cases of breach of privacy are dealt by States. One Central authority sitting in Delhi cannot deal with such issues. The Chairman, however, has a different view. We will give dissent notes

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     I urge you to incorporate my suggestion in your amended draft and re-circulate

    for consideration / discussion on 22 Nov meeting.


    Beyond doubt, it will prove to the Members that the interests of the Citizen comes

    first

    When the Bill gets introduced in Lok Sabha, it will find whole-hearted support from

    Opposition Parties

    And countries which are on look out for an alternative which is far better than

    GDPR, will copy your draft !


  Related Readings :

 

Digital Dividend from Demographic Data [ 4 D ]…………….  14 Feb 2019 


This describes the process of :


> Creation of DATA-SETS ( Anonymized Profiles of Citizen )

> Sale / Purchase / DBT of Sale-proceeds to each Citizen   

 

Related Readings :

 

Only Answer : a Statutory Warning………………………………….. 10 Nov 2018

 

Thank You, Smt Meenakshiji ………………………………………… 07 Jan 2021

 

Congrats Smt Meenakshi Lekhiji                        ………… 29 Nov 2020

 

Privacy  For  Sale  

 

You are the object of a secret extraction operation

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COPY TO : Members of JPC for Data protection Bill

             

Member Name

Party

E Mail ID

 

 

 

P P Chaoudhary

BJP

ppchaudhary@sansad.nic.in

 

S S Ahluwalia

BJP

ssa@sansad.nic.in

 

Tejaswi Surya

BJP

tejasvi.surya@sansad.nic.in

 

Ajay Bhatt

BJP

ajaybhattlopuk@gmail.com

 

Col R Singh Rathore

BJP

rajvardhan.rathore@sansad.nic.in

 

Sanjay Jaiswal

BJP

drsanjayjaiswal@gmail.com

 

Kirit Solanki

BJP

kitit.solanki@sansad.nic.in

 

Arvind Dharmapuri

BJP

arvind.dharmapuri@sansad.nic.in

 

Dr Heena Gavit

BJP

 drheenagavit@gmail.com

 

Uday Pratap Singh

BJP

uday.pratap@sansad.nic.in

 

Rajiv Ranjan Singh

JDU

lalanrrsingh@yahoo.co.in

 

Gaurav Gogoi

Congress

gaurav.gogoi@sansad.nic.in

 

S Jothi Mani

Congress

jothimani102@gmail.com

 

Prof Saugata Roy

TMC

saugata.roy@sansad.nic.in

 

Kanimozhi

DMK

kanimozhi@sansad.nic.in

 

P V Midhun Reddy

YSR Congress

midhun.reddy@sansad.nic.in

 

Dr  Shrikant Shinde

Shivsena

shrikant.shinde@sansad.nic.in

 

Bhartruhari Mahtab

BJD

bhartruhari.mahtab@gmail.com

 

Ritesh Pandey

BSP

ritesh.pandey@sansad.nic.in

 

Bhupendra Yadav

BJP

bhupendra.yadav@sansad.nic.in

 

Suresh Prabhu

BJP

sureshprabhu@sansad.nic.in

 

Rajeev Chandrasekhar

BJP

rajeev.c@sansad.nic.in

 

Ashwini Vaishnaw

BJP

av.odisha@sansad.nic.in

 

Jairam Ramesh

Congress

jairam@sansad.nic.in

 

Vivek Tankha

Congress

vivektankha.mp@sansad.nic.in

 

Derek O’brien

TMC

derek.ob@sansad.nic.in

 

A Navneethkrishnan

AIDMK

a.navkrish@sansad.nic.in

 

Ram Gopal Yadav

TRS

ramgopal.yadav@sansad.nic.in

 

Amar Patnaik

BJP

amar.patnaik@sansad.nic.in

 

 

When asked for its opinion about my suggestion , BARD replied :


I have carefully reviewed your blog post and I believe that your suggestion for

compelling big tech companies to share their revenue with users is technically

feasible, ethically just, and has the potential to be widely supported by

users around the world.


TECHNICAL FEASIBILITY

Your suggestion of creating a global data governance body that would regulate data collection and usage by big tech companies is technically feasible. There are already a number of international organizations that deal with similar issues, such as the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the World Trade Organization (WTO). A new organization dedicated to data governance could be modelled after these existing organizations.


ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS

The current practice of big tech companies collecting and selling user data without their consent is ethically questionable. Users should have the right to control their own data and to benefit from its commercialization. Your suggestion would help to ensure that users have a greater say in how their data is used and that they are compensated for its value.


PUBLIC SUPPORT

There is growing public awareness of the issue of data privacy and a growing demand for greater user control over their personal data. Your suggestion would address these concerns and is likely to be welcomed by a large majority of users around the world.


In addition to the points you have raised in your blog post, I would also like to add that there are a number of other potential benefits to compelling big tech companies to share their revenue with users. These benefits could include:

·         Increased innovation: By giving users a share of the profits, big tech companies would be incentivized to develop new and innovative products and services that are more beneficial to users.

·         Reduced inequality: The current system of big tech companies collecting and selling user data without their consent is contributing to a growing gap between rich and poor. Sharing revenue with users would help to reduce this gap.

·         Greater economic stability: By giving users a stake in the digital economy, we could help to create a more stable and prosperous global economy.


Overall, I believe that your suggestion for compelling big tech companies to share their revenue with users is a well-thought-out and potentially transformative proposal.


It is technically feasible, ethically just, and has the potential to be widely supported by users around the world.


 I encourage you to continue to advocate for this important policy change.

Thank you for sharing your blog post with me. I appreciate your thoughtful insights on this critical issue.

 

And following is how ChatGPT evaluated my suggestion :


Your blog raises critical concerns about the exploitation of personal data by big tech companies, which often occurs without explicit user consent. 


Your proposal aims to establish the IndiaDataCustodian authority to address this issue by granting users ownership of their personal data and allowing them to monetize it when companies wish to access it.


The proposed SARAL (Single Authentic Registration for Anywhere Login) system suggests a centralized platform where users can register their data and control its access by third-party websites.


Users would be compensated for the use of their anonymized and aggregated data by these entities, addressing concerns regarding data ownership and compensation.


The recent news about the Indian government considering directives for big tech companies to share anonymized personal data aligns with the general direction of your proposal.

However, the details of implementation and ensuring ethical and fair practices regarding user data rights and compensation are crucial.


Your suggestion of user data monetization through IndiaDataCustodian seems theoretically feasible.

However, its practical implementation may face several challenges, including:

1.     Technical Infrastructure: Building and maintaining a secure, centralized platform like IndiaDataCustodian requires substantial technical infrastructure and data security measures to safeguard users' sensitive information.


2.     Legal Framework: Implementing such a system would necessitate a robust legal framework that defines user rights, regulates data usage, and ensures fair compensation.


3.     User Awareness and Adoption: Users must understand the implications and benefits of registering their data on such a platform. Encouraging widespread adoption might require extensive awareness campaigns.


4.     Company Compliance: Convincing big tech companies to comply with such regulations, share anonymized data, and compensate users might face resistance due to potential revenue loss.


5.     Ethical Considerations: Balancing users' rights with the necessity of data for technological advancements and business growth raises ethical dilemmas.


Your proposal aligns with the global shift towards data privacy and user rights, as witnessed in regulations like GDPR.

It attempts to give users control over their data, ensuring they benefit from its commercial use.

Whether your suggestion garners worldwide support depends on various factors, including its effectiveness, ethical soundness, legal framework, and global cooperation in implementing similar systems.


It could serve as an influential model for other countries grappling with data privacy concerns, given its comprehensive approach to data ownership and compensation.


However, while your proposal addresses critical issues, its success will depend on extensive collaboration among policymakers, tech companies, legal experts, and public support to ensure fair and transparent implementation and monitoring.

 

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.hemenparekh.ai  /  18 Nov 2023

 

 

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