Aimed at measuring sensitivity of non-personal data, the move may potentially open up a trove of public sector data—such as anonymised coll...

These working groups will be established under the ministry of electronics and information technology. They will aim develop and adopt guid...

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (MIB) has given approval to the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC) to share raw-level ...

These measures will include initiatives like digital university, dual certification and degrees which are all aimed at upskilling and reski...

In the new round of consultations, MeitY will look for inputs on global standards as far as data anonymisation is concerned and will also c...

A senior official in the Department of Consumer Affairs tells us the centre has finalised draft guidelines on countering the spread of fake...

The guidelines were put up for feedback by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on August 30.

With large fund houses now nursing bruises to their public tech portfolios in the US, private equity and sovereign wealth funds have sensed...

The draft, by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, shows that the primary goal of the Working Group is to frame guidelin...

In response to the widespread concern over sharing of citizen data and its subsequent monetisation by government agencies, the Centre has n...

While not a law passed in the Assembly, the data policy lays down guidelines for researchers and policy consultants, companies and the publ...

The Aarogya Setu app, which was developed by the government to track those with the disease and alert people about their proximity, has giv...

Firms seek better definition of ‘sensitive’ health data and guidelines for anonymised data in the Personal Data Protection Bill. The clause...

The PDP Bill proposes voluntary verification of users and sharing of anonymised data by firms with the govt.

MeitY now says that companies – and not a government repository – should hold and monetise public data.

Following the Supreme Court’s recognition of the right to privacy’ as a fundamental right under the Constitution of India in August 2017, t...

Sharma, however, declined to provide insights into the broad contours of the upcoming regulation, but added that the customers’ data in dig...