{"id":227820,"date":"2023-02-21T21:09:05","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=227820"},"modified":"2023-02-21T21:09:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T15:39:05","slug":"how-union-budget-2023-may-foster-greater-violations-of-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/how-union-budget-2023-may-foster-greater-violations-of-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Union budget 2023 may foster greater violations of privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>– The post is based on the article \u201cHow Union budget 2023 may foster greater violations of privacy\u201d <\/strong>published in The Indian Express <\/strong>on 21th February 2023.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Syllabus:<\/strong> GS3- Science and Technology<\/p>\n

Relevance:<\/strong> Privacy related issues<\/p>\n

News- <\/strong>The article emphasis\u00a0 the need for robust data protection law.<\/p>\n

What are provisions in the budget related to digitisation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The 2023 Union Budget<\/strong> promises to be a landmark year for technology and digitisation in India.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Digital India Programme<\/strong>\u00a0 has been allotted Rs 4,795.24 crore<\/p>\n

There is a 1,000 per cent increase<\/strong> in the funding for the Artificial Intelligence<\/strong> and Digital Intelligence<\/strong> Unit.<\/p>\n

What are the potential risks associated with Digitisation?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Digitisation entails ever-expanding data collection, storage and sharing. This includes personal information such as biometrics<\/strong> and financial and health data<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Many of the initiatives announced with the budget reinforce the deep discord between the pace of digitisation efforts which will aggravate the existing privacy deficit in India.<\/p>\n

What is current digital privacy protection legal concern?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Current anonymisation<\/strong> techniques are inadequate and do not guarantee privacy protection.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Current Draft of Digital Data Protection Bill 2022<\/strong> falls short and fails to incorporate safeguards<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This Draft 2022 is even weaker than Draft 2021.<\/p>\n

The 2021 draft imposed a penalty for the intentional reidentification of an individual\u2019s anonymised personal information. This provision has been done away with, amplifying concerns around insufficient limitations and safeguards for privacy.<\/p>\n

What is the next initiative of the government?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A National Data Governance Policy will be brought out <\/strong>\u00a0to enable access to anonymised data (Union Budget 2023\u201324)<\/p>\n

Anonymised data<\/strong> includes data that does not contain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) like name, age, phone number, address<\/strong>, etc, or data from which PII has been removed.<\/p>\n

What is the way forward?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The World Economic Forum\u2019s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2023<\/strong> finds that data privacy and cybersecurity regulations are effective for reducing cyber risks.<\/p>\n

So for the potential of anonymised data to be unleashed without jeopardising people\u2019s privacy<\/strong>, India first needs a robust data protection law.<\/p>\n

As the country starts its G20 presidency<\/strong> and prepares to be a leader in this space, we should do well to prioritise the development of exemplary, rights-respecting privacy and cybersecurity regimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source– The post is based on the article \u201cHow Union budget 2023 may foster greater violations of privacy\u201d published in The Indian Express on 21th February 2023. Syllabus: GS3- Science and Technology Relevance: Privacy related issues News- The article emphasis\u00a0 the need for robust data protection law. What are provisions in the budget related to… Continue reading How Union budget 2023 may foster greater violations of privacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216,10500],"class_list":["post-227820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704945879},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}