Non-Personal Data

Subject: Governance

Context:

A government committee headed by Kris Gopalakrishnan has suggested that non-personal data generated in the country be allowed to be harnessed by various domestic companies and entities.

Concept:

• Non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information. This in essence means that no individual or living person can be identified by looking at such data.
• The government committee, which submitted its report has classified non-personal data into three main categories.
• All the data collected by government and its agencies or any information collected during execution of all publicly funded works has been kept under the umbrella of public non-personal data.
• Any data identifiers about a set of people who have either the same geographic location, religion, job, or other common social interests will form the community non-personal data.
• Private non-personal data can be defined as those which are produced by individuals which can be derived from application of proprietary software or knowledge.