NEW DELHI, Jan 16:
India, with its proven software prowess, now needs to aggressively build strong hardware capabilities as well, given the crucial role that hardware technologies play in handling and management of data in digital age, chairperson of Parliamentary Committee on Data Protection Bill and BJP MP Meenakshi Lekhi said today.
Lekhi noted that exponential rate at which data is being collected and consumed, and advent of new technologies like Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things and cloud computing have created an urgent need and legislative rigour for comprehensive framework on data protection.
Manipulation and “deception” in communication and data management can severely undermine democratic values and subvert the process of free and fair elections, she said and added that the proposed data protection legislation – in the works – is particularly relevant in the times of digital “stealth wars”. “Your thought and data can be shared with someone else without you knowing about it. Algorithms could be collecting data that you probably never consented for…So deception in communication and data management and deception in manner of working is going to cause a damage to democracies, and it will be basically challenging the supremacy of free and fair elections, and thus we need to have some method of controlling this kind of…Situation,” Lekhi said addressing a session on data privacy at SKOCH Summit. (PTI)
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