At Omidyar Network and Monitor Deloitte's report release 'Unlocking the potential of India's Data Economy', Rahul Matthan, partner at Trilegal said that "we already live in a post-consent world" and pre-collection consent for every potential use is not possible in the age of Big Data. He said that the GDPR, which essentially cuts off Big Data from data collection, is moving Europe in a non-innovation direction. But there are workarounds. He said anonymisation is very powerful, and a lot can be done with government data that currently exists. "We don't need Google or Facebook to localise data, we already have so much of it. But the data we use needs to be anonymised." He said we have to acknowledge the trade-offs in data governance, and make them explicit. "We don't realise what we're forsaking when seeking convenience," he said. One way to acknowledge the trade-offs is the accountability framework, which means one has to be accountable for the benefits but also for the harms, he said. Non-personal data: When its comes to monetisation of non-personal data, most people think that privacy isn't a concern, because there's no person attached to the data, explained Matthan. But we have to think about non-personal in a way that's privacy preserving. "As you layer more and more non-personal data, and you'll built layers of data, and then people will become de-identified," he said. According to Deepak Maheshwari from Symantec, "non-personal data is not only data which belongs to an individual, but may also belong to…
