Critical personal data must be kept within country: Niti CEO
Critical personal data of the people must be kept within the country, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here on Tuesday.
The statement comes in the backdrop of India mandating global technology giants including Mastercard and Visa to comply with the data localisation norms in the public interest.
Data localisation requires data about residents be collected, processed, and stored inside the country, often before being transferred internationally, and usually transferred only after meeting local privacy or data protection laws.
"On cross border data, I am quite clear that...there is vast amount of data and critical personal data must be kept within the country. I am a great believer that the personalised critical human data definitely must be kept within the country," he said.
Kant also said that the government is in the process of creating a portal to share data on public platform for public use as India generates a huge amount of data.
"India has a vast amount of data. Niti Aayog is ...