The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MEITY) has extended the deadline for submission of comments on the Committee of Experts' Report on governance of Non-Personal Data to September 13, 2020 (hat tip: Arun P.S.). MEITY had formed the committee headed by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan on September 13, 2019 to focus on non-personal data, and to come up with a related data governance framework. Earlier, the deadline was August 13. In the report, which was released on July 12, 2020, the committee has defined non-personal data as any data that is not related to an identified or identifiable natural person, or is personal data that has been anonymised. It has also proposed that a new legislation should govern the regulation of non-personal data along with a new regulatory body, the Non-Personal Data Authority (NPDA). Read: Summary: Report on Non-Personal Data Framework released by MEITY's Committee of Experts The committee has recommended classifying such data into three categories — public NPD, community NPD, and private NPD. The report has also identified a host of new stakeholders in the non-personal data ecosystem, including data principal, data custodian, data trustee, and data trust — many of which find their analogues in the Personal Data Protection Bill. The committee has delineated these stakeholders' obligations and the mechanisms that could enable data sharing. It has also defined the circumstances under which a private organisation, that collects non-personal data, could be remunerated for sharing its trove of non-personal data. Not all elements of the report…
