A parliamentary committee on Wednesday suggested that the government should come out with a legislation on data privacy at the earliest, as the country moves towards digitalisation of economy.
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, headed by senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily, also suggested to create a coordinating authority, reporting directly to the Prime Minister's Office (PMO), to deal with issues related to information infrastructure.
The report titled Transformation Towards A Digital Economy, which was tabled in Parliament, also expressed concern over lack of trained professionals to deal with rising cyber challenges.
The report said that India should have a sound consumer privacy and data protection law “lest we become a digital colony with global entities having virtual control over data”.
The committee said the country “now urgently needs a data minimisation, data privacy and data residency law to ensure security of public and private data”.