Thank You, Rajeev Chandrasekharji,

 

 

For taking the first step towards MONETIZATION of Non-Personal Data ( Aggregated and Anonymized Personal Data ), as advocated by me ( through my e-mails ) over the past 4 YEARS, including the following :

Data Protection Dithering ?............................... [ 21 Feb 2022 ]

MY FEEDBACK :

Ø  The policy provision to enable Govt to “ monetize “ data in its possession, is welcome, but, as I have repeatedly stressed over the years, the MAIN FOCUS must be to enable the Citizens to monetize their own Personal Data ( which, everybody agrees, belongs to the citizen but nobody helps him to SELL it )

Ø  Already big Social Media sites / E-com sites / Fintech sites and umpteen other businesses, are all compiling User’s Personal Data ( hiding behind vague “ I agree / I accept “ links ) and earning tons of money by selling the same to Advertisers ( or anyone willing to pay for it )

Ø  Your draft policy ( as far as I can make out ), will only add “ insult to injury “ to the Indian Citizen, because now, besides those SOCIAL BLOOD-SUCKERS, even the Government will start making thousands of crores of Rupees, by resorting to the same tactic – leaving the citizen high and dry !

Ø  In my earlier emails, I have demonstrated how implementation of my following suggestions, will enable each User to earn upto Rs 30,000 per month :

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

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

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

Ø  I am happy at the concept of   “ India Data Council “ ( in the footsteps of GST Council ), with participation of all the State Governments

Ø  However, for complete involvement / participation in the DATA LICENSING – DATA MONETIZATION process, I urge you to extend membership of IDC to ASSOCHAM – CII – FICCI – NASSCOM – Internet Freedom Foundation – relevant THINK TANKS ( and anyone who will speak on behalf of the Citizen )

Ø  This is my initial  feedback

Ø  I urge you to be TRANSPARENT and publish all feedbacks received, on MeITY website

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / 22 Feb 2022 / hcp@recruitGuru.com

 

Context :

India's draft data policy unlocks govt data for all, mulls monetisation  /  Busi Standard / 22 Feb 2022

Extract :

Ø  The government on Monday published a draft data policy for public consultation, which says all data collected, generated, and stored by every government ministry and department will be open and shareable barring certain exceptions.

Ø  Also, detailed datasets that have undergone value addition could be monetised by the government.

Ø  The policy document, called “Draft India Data Accessibility & Use Policy 2022”, prescribes that a regulatory authority called the Indian Data Council (IDC) and an agency by the name India Data Office (IDO) will oversee framing metadata standards and enforcement, respectively.

Ø  While the IDC will comprise the IDO and data officers of five government departments, the IDO will be constituted by the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology (MeitY) to streamline and consolidate data access and sharing public data repositories across the government and other stakeholders.

Ø  The IDC’s tasks will include,

       #  defining frameworks for defining high-value datasets,

       #  finalising data standards and metadata standards, and

       #  reviewing the implementation of the policy.

       The nomination of departments and state governments in the IDC will be by rotation with a tenure of

       two years for one department.

Ø  According to the draft policy, stakeholders like ,

       #  Start-ups,

       #  other Enterprises,

       #  Individuals and

       #  Researchers

  -  will be able to access enriched data through data licensing, sharing, and valuation within the

     frameworks of data security and privacy.

Ø  “The core objective of this policy seems to be purely revenue generation. It lacks clarity on a number of things such as how a high-value dataset will be defined”  said Apar Gupta, executive director at the Internet Freedom Foundation.

Ø  Also, data standards that cut across domains will be finalised by the IDC and, once done, adopted by all government ministries and departments concerned.

Ø  Although a background document for the draft policy talks about the Personal Data Protection Bill and Non-Personal Data Protection Framework, the draft policy doesn’t clearly state how areas of it overlap, like how the consent and anonymisation of an individual’s data that resides with the government will be dealt with, say experts.

Ø  “ The government’s efforts are towards monetisation, which itself follows from the NITI Aayog’s thinking that all non-personal data is national resource. This policy may also see a big push-back from big tech firms as their business models are based on monetising this kind of large-scale data,”

Ø  The draft policy also looks to provide for the time frame of the government holding datasets.

Ø  "We welcome the initiative by the government to seek public comments on the Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy, 2022, which aims to enhance data access to start-ups through mechanisms such as data licensing, develop metadata standards, as well as prescribe norms for data security and privacy," said Kazim Rizvi, founder of policy think-tank The Dialogue.

 

Comments forwarded to : Ms. Kavita Bhatia, ( kbhatia@gov.in  /  pmu.etech@meity.gov.in  )

 

 

Related Readings :

India Data Accessibility and Use Policy :  Background Note

India Data Accessibility and Use Policy  

 

Comprising :

 

1      Preamble

2      Objectives and Purpose

3      Definitions

4      Applicability

5      Principles

6      Institutional Framework

7      Making Data Open by Default

8      Govt-to-Govt Data Sharing

9      Integrated Data Portals

10    High Value Data Sets

 

11   Pricing and Licensing

 

     #  Minimally processed Data Sets will be made freely available. Only

         detailed data sets that have undergone value addition / transformation

         and qualify for monetization , may be priced appropriately

         

         

     #  For restricted access data sharing, pricing of the data-sets as decided by

          the owner government department or agency , must be notified in

          a transparent manner

 

      #  Incentivize data sharing through creative licensing frameworks and

          enable price discovery through novel monetization models to aid

         Ministries – Departments for identifying and sharing ,priced data sets

         

        

 

         

          

 

12    Data Quality and Meta Data Standards

13    Data Anonymization and Privacy Preservation

14    Data Retention

15    Capacity and Skill Building Measures

16    Data Sharing Tool Kit

17    Policy Monitoring and Enforcement

18    Implementation Manual

 

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Data Protection Dithering ?

 

 

Dear Shri Rajeev Chandrasekharji,

For over 4 years now, I have been suggesting / advocating / pleading :

Ø  As drafted ( and revised by JPC ), Data Protection Bill is UNIMPLEMENTABLE and must be scrapped

Ø  A new bill should be introduced which shifts the focus from PROTECTION to MONETIZATION of data

Ø  If someone still does not admit that “ PRIVACY IS DEAD “, let her wait ( another 2 years ? ), by which time, following technologies would RULE the WORLD of PERSONAL DATA :

AI – ML – BLOCKCHAIN – 5G – GPT 3 – WuDAO 2 – METAVERSE – AR – VR – HOLOGRAPHIC MEETINGS – CONVERSATION BOTS – NLP – ( I am sure, you know of a lot more )

I strongly urge that you get NASSCOM to examine / evaluate, my following alternative :

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

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

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

With regards,

Hemen Parekh / hcp@RecruitGuru.com / 21 Feb 2022

 

Context :

Fresh legislation may replace data protection bill  / Eco Times / 17 Feb 2022

 

Extract :

 

Ø  India may draft a completely new privacy bill, by putting aside the current version of the Personal Data Protection Bill 2019

 

Ø  Among the options being discussed is the introduction of fresh legislation that can cater to the on-going " sea change in the local and global technology ( environment ) "

 

Ø  A better option is to bring a new Bill altogether which is aligned with the current times

Ø  Time is of the essence here and we must understand that very clearly

Ø  The Privacy Bill is a marquee piece of legislation which was supposed to give India — one of the world’s largest Internet markets — a regulatory framework for the first time.

 

India needs a new digital law: Rajeev Chandrasekhar  /  TNN  /  Feb 17, 2022

 

Extract :

Ø  Union minister of state for electronics and IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar said India needs a new digital law as the current legislation, the IT Act, is 20 years-old.

 

Ø  “We need a law for the internet. It’s important to get the next bit of legislation right in terms of its ability for it to be flexible and evolutionary,” he said

 

Ø   “ I don’t want to rush into something and then go back with more amendments. The world needs to get a signal that India's cyber space is safe, trusted, open and accountable and most importantly very predictable in terms of what the jurisprudence around it is.”

 

 

Ø  We have a lot to teach the world in terms of how we manage digitisation, increase digital adoption, inclusion and access to all

 

 

Over Concentration of Data increases the risk Digital Dictatorship and Data Colonialism  /  BL  /  17 Feb 2022

Extract :

Ø  Over concentration of data into a corporation, a government agency or amongst a few countries increases the risk of ‘ data colonialism ’ and ‘ digital dictatorship ’, said writer and historian Yuval Noah Harari.

 

Ø  It is the first time in the human history that we have a possibility to follow everybody all the time, to get to know you better than you know yourself.

 

 

Ø  In the 21st century, to conquer a country you don’t need to send the soldiers, you need to get their data. Imagine a situation in 10-20 years, when somebody in China or US has the personal records and data of every politician, judge, journalists and military officers – every conversation they had and jokes they told. It’s no longer an independent country, it’s a data colony.”

 

Ø  Explaining through his example, Harari said, “All of these sophisticated technologies like AI & ML are produced in a few countries and can be used to exploit the rest of the world. It’s a big challenge for countries all over the world – how to prevent both these dangers. Don’t concentrate too much data internally and create digital dictatorship. Also, don’t allow too much data to be concentrated outside to become data colony.”

 

 

Ø  Harari suggests that there needs to be a power balance top-down through proper surveillance of the individuals sharing data as well as the corporations gathering that data.

 

Ø  Governments have the power to regulate AI to prevent the worst-case scenarios. There a few principles one can follow.

 

Ø  One of them is when somebody is collecting my data, it should be used to help me and not to manipulate me. This should be the key principle whether it’s a corporation or government agency.

 

Ø   Another key principle, never allow too much of data to be concentrated into one place. Over concentration of data is a high road to digital dictatorship.”

 

 

Ø  He added, “Additionally, when you increase surveillance of an individual, you must simultaneously increase surveillance of the government or the corporation. So, it’s not just top-down surveillance, it’s a balance on both ends.”

 

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Extract :

Dear Shri Ravishankar Prasadji,

In a way, may be it was best that we have yet to pass the Data Protection Bill into a law

The latest release of OPEN SOURCE ARCHITECTURE  by Inrupt, now makes it possible re-focus the PERSONAL DATA issue,

      Ø  from one of PRIVACY

      Ø  to one of MONETIZING

 

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