Question:The committee headed by Kris Gopalakrishnan is related to which field?
(a) Banking Reforms
(b) Non-personal data governance
(c ) Small scale industries and Trade Policy Reform
(d ) Microfinance
Answer:(b)
- Context:
- A government committee headed by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan has suggested that non-personal data generated in the country be allowed to be harnessed by various domestic companies and entities.
- About:
- 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.
- Unlike personal data, which contains explicit information about a person’s name, age, gender, sexual orientation, biometrics and other genetic details, non-personal data is more likely to be in an anonymised form.
- For example, while order details collected by a food delivery service will have the name, age, gender, and other contact information of an individual, it will become non-personal data if the identifiers such as name and contact information are taken out.
- Categories: The committee has classified non-personal data into three main categories:
- Public Non-Personal Data: All the data collected by government and its agencies such as census, data collected by municipal corporations on the total tax receipts in a particular period or any information collected during execution of all publicly funded works
- Community Non-Personal Data: Any data about a set of people who have either the same geographic location, religion, job or other common social interests.For example, the data collected by ride-hailing apps, electricity distribution companies among others.
- Private non-personal data: It can be defined as those which are produced by individuals which can be derived from application of proprietary software or knowledge.
By-Arpit Mishra
Links:
https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/non-personal-data-explained-6506613/