Our laws have enough provisions to book those misusing data: Prasad

Interview with Union minister for electronics and information technology on the government's views regarding data misuse

Over recent weeks, there has been a controversy related to misuse of Facebook data to influence elections by London-based Cambridge Analytica. Ravi Shankar Prasad, Union minister for electronics and information technology, to Kiran Rathee, on the government’s views regarding data misuse. Edited excerpts: 

Data can be misused and we’ve recently seen how. With growing digitalisation, this fear of misuse is also increasing.

We are very proud of the Digital India initiative. Of our 1.3 billion people, 1.21 bn have mobile phones, 1.2 bn have Aadhaar cards, 500 million are internet users and India is emerging as a big digital