In an op-ed for The Wire, Mozilla Fellows Divij Joshi and Anouk Ruhaak write there are unanswered questions in India’s proposed framework to regulate non-personal data. An expert committee’s report fails to adequately address inequities in the digital economy and its recommendations “are substantially underdeveloped,” they say. “A mature policy on non-personal data that truly respects the rights of communities” to control data “needs to carefully consider questions of community representation, governance and legitimacy, and addresses questions of agency and self-determination.”
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