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LIVE 🔴 | An exclusive interview with MP Amar Patnaik, Member of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Personal Data Protection Bill, is now being screened at MediaNama’s Regulating Non-Personal Data. #NonPersonalData

The main reason for clubbing non-personal data with PDP Bill is the fact that it is difficult to distinguish between personal and NPD in tight packets all through the process of collection of data. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

Therefore, if there are two different authorities, that is one for the personal data and other for non personal data, then there is every likelihood of confusion, turf wars and ultimately the data principals suffering. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

We have tried to take both NPD and personal data under the umbrella of one legislation so there is a centralized authority where the data principal can approach in case the data is breached or in case there is any right that he wants to establish. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

I don't think that by putting this bill in the Parliament, together with NPD under one umbrella, the Kris Gopalakrishnan Committee report is being pushed under the carpet or pushed to the wall, pushed behind doors. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

The Indian government may choose to move ahead separately, but our logic is that if you have both under one umbrella, the maximum optimization of protecting privacy and promoting digital economy would be achieved. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

I don't think that this bill would deter the growth of digital economy, and would rather give stability to the system so that if there is cross-border data flow, so people who come to India know what the regulation is - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

When the government brings in principles & regulations relating to NPD, it has to be clear & it must not kill the goose that lays the golden eggs of protecting intellectual property so that different innovation take place. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

My prescription is that govt should come out with a model where NPD could be shared freely across public, private and all kinds of sectors. - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

On gag of publication of export & import data, this is a knee jerk reaction that has happened & I'm sure that this will come up for a larger discussion in the parliament to questions or in debates - @amar4odisha #NonPersonalData

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