Govt Of India to allow tech companies to sell users public data
By MYBRANDBOOK
The government may mandate the companies such as Google, Facebook and Amazon to sell public or non-personal data that they collect to anyone in the country seeking access to it, including the government and private entities.
The Ministry of Electronics and IT is considering issuing guidelines under the Information Technology Act. The new guidelines will also be aimed at ensuring competition and universal access to the database generated from its citizens.
It is reported that the ‘Seven Super’ companies – Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook and China’s Tencent and Alibaba, account for two-thirds of the total data market by value. Google has 90% of the internet search market. Facebook holds two-thirds of the global social media market and its top social media platform is in more than 90% of the world’s economy. Amazon almost has a 40% share of the world’s online retail activities, and its AWS accounts the similar share in the cloud business.
One of the officials said, “We will soon begin consultations on this issue. However, the clear thinking in the government is that the data collected belongs to Indian citizens and should be available to Indians. These big tech companies were the first ones to come up with the idea and do the work, so just like in critical medicines, they should have the right to charge an economic fee for sharing it.”
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