CURRENT AFFAIRS

2019

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Who will be the head of the panel to study issues related to non-personal data and suggest the ways to regulate non-personal data?
A
N. S. Raghavan
B
Kris Gopalakrishnan
C
S. D. Shibulal
D
Nandan Nilekani
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The Expert Committee constituted by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Chair: Mr. Kris Gopalakrishnan) to study various issues relating to non-personal data submitted its report in July, 2020.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Bill was first drafted by an expert committee headed by Justice BN Srikrishna in 2018. The central government introduced a draft of the Bill in 2019 in the Lok Sabha, which was referred to the Joint Committee of Parliament (JCP) in December 2021 and was later tabled in Parliament after several extensions.

Detailed explanation-3: -Under the new Bill, NPD was defined as any data that is not personal in nature, adding that it was also the combination of all such information that could profile an individual. The contentious parts of the Bill include provisions that seek to regulate NPD within the scope of a personal data protection framework.

Detailed explanation-4: -personal data, where portability refers to the relationship between the data subject and the data controller, i.e. in a “business-to-consumer” relationship; non-personal data, where data portability concerns “business-to-business” interactions between a professional user and a service provider.

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