Panel proposes new regulator for citizens' non-personal data: Report

Such a regulator would be armed with legal powers to request data, supervise data sharing requests and settle disputes, report said.

India should set up a data regulator and require companies to disclose how they collect and store data devoid of personal details or which has been anonymised, a panel tasked to draw up such regulations has said in a draft report seen by Reuters.

As India moves to tighten policies on its citizens’ data held and processed by companies such as Facebook (FB.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Amazon (AMZN.O), it set up the panel last year to make recommendations on the regulation of “non-personal data”.

This is a term for data viewed as a critical resource by companies that analyse it to build