NEW DELHI — India should set up a data regulator and require companies to disclose how they collect and store data devoid of personal details or which has been anonymised, a panel tasked to draw up such regulations has said in a draft report seen by Reuters. As India moves to tighten policies on its citizens' data held and processed by companies such as Facebook, Google and Amazon, it set up the panel last year to make recommendations on the regulation of "non-personal data". This is a term for data viewed as a critical resource by companies that analyse it to build their businesses and describes information that is independent of personal details such as names, or anonymised to protect people's identity. "There is a need to create a regulator or authority for data business, which provides centralized regulation for all non-personal data exchanges," the government-appointed panel said in the report.

Source: International New York Times July 10, 2020 08:37 UTC