IT secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney on Thursday said the new decade is of India and it is time for the country to come up with a data protection model that the world follows.
The data protection model for both personal and non-personal is at an infancy stage and there is learning that is coming from various countries as of now, he added.
“We have actually practised for the past several decades where we look at models which have emerged somewhere else and then sort of improve on that. This is 2020 and decade of India.
“I truly believe it’s India’s decade and it’s India’s time to come up with a model that the world looks at and does some cut and paste, and some improvisation of what comes out of India,” Sawhney said at a virtual panel discussion organised by Vidhi Legal.He said that the idea of creating data trusts is going to be very significant for both personal and non-personal data.The Personal Data Protection Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha in February and has been referred to a Joint Parliamentary Committee of both the Houses, headed by BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi, for examination and report.
“Our framework is something that the world is looking very carefully and I believe this to be recognised as the best thinking at the current level. These are of course subjects that are there at the infancy stage. There is learning already from GDPR implementation and from other countries as well, but as we move not only to personal data protection but also into various aspects of non-personal data,” Sawhney said.