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MEITY may come up with policy on regulation of non-personal data: report

The government is looking to chart out a policy on the regulation of non-personal data, reports the Economic Times. For the same, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) might come up with a report on non-personal data - community data, anonymised data and e-commerce data -  held by different companies, per the report. The government might also ask concerned ministries and regulators to decide which kind of data would fall under such a policy's ambit, the report continues. This report comes after MEITY had privately sought responses to fresh questions on the data protection bill from select stakeholders – a development we made public last month - which covered data localisation, enabling free access to non-personal and anonymised data and whether the Data Protection Authority should also govern non-personal data, among other things. The ministry will use the responses received from these additional consultations for floating a whitepaper on this issue which can be made open for public consultation, said the report. We have reached out to MeitY for comments and will update this when they reply. MEITY had sought comments from select stakeholders on 'contours' of policy on non-personal data In August, the ministry sought additional comments on the Personal Data Protection Bill from a select group of stakeholders. Here is a list of the questions that the ministry sent to these stakeholders: Does the draft Bill impose adequate obligations on the data fiduciary? The draft bill proposes that all personal data needs to be stored in India whereas significant number of feedback received suggests…

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