The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday released the recommendations on “Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in the Telecom Sector”, where it has mentioned each user owns his/her personal information/ data collected by/stored with the entities in the digital ecosystem.
“The entities, controlling and processing such data, are mere custodians and do not have primary rights over this data,” it stated.
The TRAI recommended that a study should be undertaken to formulate the standards for annonymisation/de-identification of personal data generated and collected in the digital eco-system. “All entities in the digital ecosystem, which control or process the data, should be restrained from using meta-data to identify the individual users.”
It mentions that the existing framework for protection of the personal information/ data of telecom consumers is not sufficient. “To protect telecom consumers against the misuse of their personal data by the broad range of data controllers and processors in the digital ecosystem, all entities in the digital ecosystem, which control or process their personal data should be brought under a data protection framework,” it adds.