Panel suggests govt pay companies for processed non-personal data

A panel that is looking into the regulation of anonymized data has suggested that the government may have to pay a ‘fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory’ remuneration for certain non-personal data that it requests from companies.

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Key-Points

The government committee, which submitted its report has classified non-personal data into three main categories, namely public non-personal data, community non-personal data and private non-personal data.

It has also suggested setting up of a new authority which would be empowered to monitor the use and mining of such non-personal data.

Non-personal data

In its most basic form, non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information.

This in essence means that no individual or living person can be identified by looking at such data. For example, while order details collected by a food delivery service will have the name, age, gender, and other contact information of an individual, it will become non-personal data if the identifiers such as name and contact information are taken out.

The government committee, which submitted its report has classified non-personal data into three main categories, namely public non-personal data, community non-personal data and private non-personal data. Depending on the source of the data and whether it is anonymised in a way that no individual can be re-identified from the data set, the three categories have been divided.