Pitching for ‘user-friendly’ privacy laws, IT czar NR Narayana Murthy on Wednesday said the issue of privacy had to be settled ‘once and for all’. “This is what the Ministry of law has to do, and that is we have to work on user-friendly privacy laws, because whether we like it or not, when you have big data, high performance or supercomputing supporting those day to day things, if they are not used by citizens of the country, it has no value,” he said.
The co-founder of IT giant Infosys said that the issue of privacy therefore had to be settled ‘once and for all’. “(It should be) in a way that satisfies those that argue for privacy with others who realise that unless we use these databases and unless these databases become useful for benefiting citizens of this country, then it is not worth having them,” he added. Murthy was delivering the keynote speech at the National Supercomputing Conclave, organised by the India Electronics and Semiconductor Association here. Suggesting that the task was not simple, while pointing at Aadhar, he called for setting up group of experts with National law Schools to look into privacy laws.