Community recommendations submission to CoE from NPD Week

[Zainab Bawa]

Hello everyone, 

NPD Week - a series of discussions on different aspects of the Non-Personal Data (NPD) framework proposed for India - concluded on 29 January. A document - of community recommendations - was drawn from the NPD Week and shared with the CoE/MEITY. This document is available on: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z8OGQ88_L19kyyTxIQ3WRPxbDpqZKc8G/view?usp=sharing

NPD Week hosted discussions, some of which may be of interest to the DataMeet members:

1. Consent - and its weakening through "Opt-out" option from High Value Datasets (HVDs): Public Interest Technology, Suchana Seth, explained the similarity problem with consent, and explained why the creation of HVDs strips citizens of agency in issuing consent. Read the session summary on: https://hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/npd-week/sub/npd-v2-opt-out-from-de-anonymization-is-not-a-suff-5xMfNVyd3UjC9uY5JGF73T
2. NPD's positioning vis-a-vis global data regulation regimes: On 27 January, Annabel Lee, Raegan MacDonald, and Sean McDonald discussed policy approaches of US, China, Europe and India while discussing questions of community rights, data as a resource, and the problematics of the Data Trustee entity. Summary and video on: https://hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/npd-week/sub/summary-of-panel-discussion-personal-and-non-perso-SRRvR1SiJkHqcdXQYe423D
3. On community and public good definitions in NPD: An important discussion of NPD Week was on the question of community and public good. Here, questions about the history of community rights and the state's role in protecting it were invoked, as the question of whether NPD will enable Public Good was discussed. The other issue discussed was fixing community in a geographical place and in a legal framework. Tech heavy implementation of NPD further complicates how communities will indeed participate in the creation of non-personal data, and protecting it. 

NPD Week has produced a rich set of discussions, and practical suggestions on how to think about data regulations in India. 

Watch videos of the sessions on hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/npd-week/videos. 

Read session summaries, opinion posts, and articles on NPD on hasgeek.com/PrivacyMode/npd-week/sub

Regards,

Zainab Bawa