MeitY whitepaper to seek opinion on non-personal data

NEW DELHI: The electronics ministry may come up with a report on non-personal — community, anonymised and ecommerce — data held by companies, including Uber, Google and Amazon, to be used to chalk out a policy on nonpersonal data regulation.

A senior official told ET the government may also consider leaving it to the ministries or regulators to define which kind of data should come under the purview of such a policy. This comes after the latest round of select stakeholder consultation over the draft Personal Data Protection (PDP) Bill, in which the government has also sought opinions on the contours of a policy for non-personal data, besides feedback on issues such as data localisation