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By Subhashish Bhadra Late last year, the Government-appointed committee on non-personal data released its second report. The first report, released in Sept ’20, had raised fears of ‘nationalisation of data’ and harming the commercial interests of data-based companies. The second report addresses several issues that were raised, and is a substantial improvement over the first. For a detailed comparison of the first and second report, you can read Ikigai Law’s summary. There’s much to ...

What stood out: Business purpose requests: Private entity to private entity mandatory data sharing requests are not considered to be in the scope of the committee’s recommendations. NPD Legislation: The Committee of Experts has proposed that the Non Personal Data (NPD) framework become the basis of a new legislation for regulating NPD. Sovereign purpose requests exempt: the Non Personal Data Authority will not adjudicate the validity of data requests under Sovereign purpose (national security...