The Economic Times reports Indian Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said a bill has been drafted to address concerns around government's access and monetization of personal data. The proposed National Data Governance Framework and Policy will set standards for data collection, use and storage by government agencies, concepts that have been omitted from India's Data Protection Bill proposals. Chandrasekhar said the framework, previously dubbed the Data Accessibility and Use Policy, was being "misunderstood" as a sharing policy and required a re-think.
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