Data regulation must balance the need for privacy and gains from open data. The state must embrace its role as a data generator and disseminator.
In the Financial Express, Sharmadha Srinivasan, Shaina Patel and I argue that “the government’s approach to data regulation needs an overhaul. Future legislation—including the Data Protection Bill—needs to account for not only concerns regarding data privacy but the benefits of open data too.”
Read the full op-ed here.