To share user data or not? Tech companies not on same page

New Delhi: Companies such as ecommerce players and cab aggregators aren’t on the same page over the issue of sharing non-personal, or anonymous, information that the government may seek from them for better policymaking, as proposed in the Personal Data Protection Bill.

Amazon expressed apprehension over sharing the data during meetings last month with a committee headed by Infosys cofounder S Gopalakrishnan, two people aware of the matter said. The Gopalakrishnan committee is tasked with recommending regulations on