{"id":86264,"date":"2019-09-14T16:14:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=10129"},"modified":"2019-09-14T16:14:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-14T10:44:51","slug":"regulation-of-non-personal-data-meity-sets-up-new-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulation-of-non-personal-data-meity-sets-up-new-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Regulation of non-personal data: MeitY sets up new committee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(Meity) has formed a new Committee of Experts to focus on non-personal data.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the committee:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The committee is headed by the Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishna.<\/li><li>The committee is mandated to to study various issues relating to non-personal data and to make specific suggestions for consideration of the central government on regulation of non-personal data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why was this committee formed?&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The draft Personal Data Protection Bill by Srikrishna Committee only dealt with personal data.It had recommended that the government should come up with a law to protect non personal data.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What is non-personal data?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Non-personal data is usually held by large commercial entities like cab-aggregators, e-commerce companies that use the community data generated on their platforms to improve their services.&nbsp;<\/li><li>This is in addition to anonymised datasets also being provided to government bodies and departments by large internet companies to assist in policy making.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional information:<\/strong><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Draft Personal Data Protection Bill,2018:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The draft of Personal Data Protection Bill,2018 is based on the recommendations of the government-constituted panel headed by Justice BN Srikrishna.<\/li><li>The Bill regulates the processing of personal data of individuals (data principals) by government and private entities (data fiduciaries) incorporated in India and abroad.<\/li><li>The bill provides individuals several rights with respect to their data such as seeking correction or seeking access to their data which is stored with the fiduciary.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The bill says that government and private entities has certain obligations towards the individual while processing their data such as notifying them of the nature and purposes of data processing.<\/li><li>The Bill allows exemptions for certain kinds of data processing such as processing in the interest of national security for legal proceedings or for journalistic purposes.<\/li><li>The Bill requires that a serving copy of personal data be stored within the territory of India.Certain critical personal data must be stored solely within the country.<\/li><li>A national-level Data Protection Authority (DPA) is to be set up to supervise and regulate data fiduciaries.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology(Meity) has formed a new Committee of Experts to focus on non-personal data. Facts: About the committee: The committee is headed by the Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishna. The committee is mandated to to study various issues relating to non-personal data and to make specific suggestions for consideration of the central&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/regulation-of-non-personal-data-meity-sets-up-new-committee\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regulation of non-personal data: MeitY sets up new committee<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3127],"tags":[3841,3842],"class_list":["post-86264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","tag-non-personal-data","tag-personal-data-protection-bill","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702600683},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86264","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}