‘Stringent action to prevent data misuse’:

‘Stringent action to prevent data misuse’:

Context:

• Government’s commitment to ensuring data protection.

Introduction:

• The IT Minister assured that unauthorized use of data would be dealt with stringent actions.
• The Government wants to make data analytics a national movement.

Why is such a stringent stand of the government required?  

• Big data analytics can help in precision governance and inclusive growth of the country.
• Right to privacy has been recognized as a Fundamental Right by the Supreme Court of India.

What is the area of opportunity?

• Currently, in India, there is a big gap between data being available and data being utilized.

How to promote big data analytics?

• To promote big data analytics, the government has come out with various IT initiative like 24-hour Hackathon under Startup Eco-system Development programme.
• The Open Government Data (OGD) Platform was started in March 2012.