India needs a paradigm shift in personal data management that will promote greater user control on data sharing, according to a new discussion paper by Niti Aayog.
The draft for discussion paper titled 'Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA)' further said it is designed as an evolvable and agile framework for good data governance, given the rapid pace of change in this arena.
In a nutshell, it said, DEPA empowers people to seamlessly and securely access their data and share it with third-party institutions.
The draft paper further said that opening up an Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) based data sharing framework would bring

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