This comes on the heel of the data privacy bill, which is listed to be tabled in the winter session of parliament. Apart from access to non-personal data, the bill will also tackle topics such as intermittent liability of social media platforms, and data localization and storage issues. A government source told the publication that authorities should be able to regulate how, when, and where non-personal data is being used: The move is also influenced by an upcoming report on non-personal data handling by a committee headed by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan. Europe’s data regulation law, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), allows the free flow of non-personal data and makes it available for authorities for regulation.
