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LIVE 🔴 | Our first panel is on Startups and Non-Personal Data where we’ll aim to understand the experience of sharing NPD, the risks involved in doing so and whether startups can benefit from greater access to NPD.

Session Chair: Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin, Founder and Editor, @medianama; Speakers: Anal Ghosh from @googlemaps, Karthik Raghupathy from @PhonePe_, @sijokuruvilla from @adif_India and @zainabbawa from @Hasgeek. #NonPersonalData

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PhonePe's #Pulse is an altruistic application for non-personal data sharing. We are seeing businesses using this data to deliver value to people. Our data is representative of the economy - #KarthikRaghupathy #NonPersonalData

We did not want to share data which would compromise privacy. We did quite a lot to ensure privacy and data sanctity was maintained. Data was aggregated to a district level. We decided to not go below that. - #KarthikRaghupathy #NonPersonalData

We had strict controls to monitor access control. You need to make sure there are no issues over manipulation. Only verified individiuals have access that our powering data externally. - #KarthikRaghupathy #NonPersonalData

Data sharing should be flexible and voluntary and not mandatory. There should be creative encouragement fro policymakers, I do not believe enterprises should be mandated to share this data. - #KarthikRaghupathy #NonPersonalData

At Google Maps, we deal with geospatial and location data, we have been sharing it for a while. Community mobility reports started showing places which health officials should track during the pandemic - #AnalGhosh #NonPersonalData

Users have to opt in to share their data with us. On top of it, we apply anonymisation and then we apply differential privacy so it cannot be tracked. - #AnalGhosh #NonPersonalData

There is no use case which requires us to use non-anonymous data. To ensure there is no possiblity of tracking, differential privacy adds more noise and make it random. We are confident it is not reversible. - #AnalGhosh #NonPersonalData

We have not had specific requests to share particular set of data. Personal-level data is not possible. We are open to sharing data whenever there is a need. Each use case needs to be evaluated. - #AnalGhosh #NonPersonalData

This definition of a start-up is very uniform but in real life, it is not uniform. Asking small start-ups to share data sets might not be useful from a societal or business perspective. - @zainabbawa #NonPersonalData

The uniform sentiment among start-ups that these kind of frameworks are being introduced but there is no consultation with stakeholders in terms of what implementation will look like. - @zainabbawa #NonPersonalData

Metadata can really share the strategy of the company. Do companies really would want to share metadata? Data cataloguing is a massive exercise. Not every organisation can maintain such sets. - @zainabbawa #NonPersonalData

The primary responsbility of business is to create IP. For businesses, whatever they are mandated to share should be an exception rather than by default. Mandatory sharing goes against the ethos of start-up culture. - @sijokuruvilla #NonPersonalData

Forcing big tech to open up their IP and making it available to everyone goes against a strong IP regime. Data sharing has been happening rampantly. There is a lot of negative talk around data sharing. Data business is still viewed as shady. - @sijokuruvilla #NonPersonalData

If you are putting out data as a large company, we need to be sure about veracity and ensuring data cannot be hacked or security leaks. It took us a year to ensure scrubs on privacy and security. - #KarthikRaghupathy #NonPersonalData

The amount of data most young companies try to hoard to put them to tangible use, the proportion is low. One of the good things is that computing power has become cheap. A lot of data is sitting with private companies. - @sijokuruvilla #NonPersonalData

The whole notion of universities and start-ups collaborating to create IPs is one of the positives out of this. You really need capabilities to take advantage of data. - @sijokuruvilla #NonPersonalData

For good actors, good framework is also protection. In absence of a framework, good actors will struggle to come inside. It is a free market for bad actors. Even of you are a good actor, you being perceived as a bad actor is likely. - @sijokuruvilla #NonPersonalData

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