Econ Survey: Anonymised data should be treated as ‘public good’

NEW DELHI: The Economic Survey 2018-2019 has said that data must be treated as a public good, which can be used for social welfare and can also be monetised to ‘ease pressure on government finances’, but cautioned that privacy implications of the anonymised information needs to be factored in.

“Data, ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’ must therefore become the mantra of the government,” India’s chief economic advisor Krishnamurthy V. Subramanian highlighted in the Survey, which was tabled in Parliament on Thursday.