Bulk Data Sharing Policy News Today

Apar Gupta details the way in which technology can be used to deepen police abuses and erosion of democratic freedoms.

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has called for the withdrawal and reconsideration of the Draft India Data Accessibility and Use Policy.

The government should not own data or charge a price for the sharing data, SFLC said in its feedback on the draft data access policy.

Govt sold vehicular data to private firm years before formulating data sharing policy: Report 3 hours ago We missed this earlier: In a September 2014 deal, the Indian government sold a copy of the country’s entire vehicle registration database to a private Indian company. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) database sold, in objection of government officials around pricing, to Fast Lane Automotive Pvt. Ltd. These revelations were reported by The Reporters’ Collective on the ba...

Govt Scrapped Vehicular Bulk Data Deal Over Privacy Issues. But a German Firm Was Already Involved. The partnership with German firm ManServ, in Fast Lane’s own written admission, included sharing of “very sensitive information”. Photo: Reuters/B. Mathur/Files Read the first part of this investigation here. New Delhi: Months after India’s transport ministry allowed a New Delhi-based company access to data on Indian vehicle ownership and registration, the company went on to s...

Centre made Rs 100 crore by sharing vehicle data with private companies: Nitin Gadkari Responding to another question whether the government would propose to demand the deletion of such data collated by private players, Gadkari answered that no such proposal was under consideration BusinessToday.In | February 12, 2021 | Updated 13:56 IST The revenue collected by the government by providing access to VAHAN and SARATHI database is Rupees 1,11,38,79,757, Union Minister for Road Transport and High...

The data has been shared with law enforcement agencies, the home ministry, auto, freight and insurance companies. A list of around 170 parties with which the two databases have been shared include BMW, Axis Bank, Bajaj Allianz General Insurance, L&T Financial Services, Mercedes Benz, among others.