A national non-personal data protection (NPD) authority must be established by the Indian government according to a recommendation by a committee led by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan, Economic Times reported. The recommendation has been made in the draft Bill and the final report submitted to the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) two months ago, the report added. The final report also classifies companies that control high amounts of data as “data businesses” and explains what constitutes a “high value data” set; the government or other companies will be able to access these data sets at a price decided by the market forces, as per ET. The expert committee had come out with a draft in July 2020, and released a revised version on which it invited comments from stakeholders in December 2020. The final report takes into account…
