Government constitutes Committee to study
issues related to data protection...
The central government has constituted an expert
panel, which would study various issues relating to data protection in the
country and suggest a draft data protection Bill. The 10-member panel is headed
by Justice (retired) B N Srikrishna
The panel comprising of members from government,
academia and industry will study and identify key data protection issues and
recommend methods to address them.
The panel includes Aruna Sundararajan,
Secretary, Department of Telecom; Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO of Unique
Identification Authority of India; Ajay Kumar, Additional Secretary, IT
Ministry; Gulshan Rai, National Cyber Security Coordinator; and Rajat Moona,
Director, IIT Raipur, Arghya Sengupta and Rama Vedashree.
Rama Vedashree is CEO of Data Security Council of
India. “When Aadhaar-enabled payment systems proliferate, host of data is
deployed at merchants of which some can be phone-based, some through PoS
devices. When an entire ecosystem is so closely connected, security by design
becomes default,” The Times of India quoted her as saying in April.
Aruna Sundararajan is
Secretary, Department of Telecom.
Rajat Moona,
Director, IIT Raipur, is a key member in the panel. The former Director General
of Centre for Development of Advanced Computing had in 2015 said that Aadhaar
made e-KYC and e-signatures possible.
Ajay Bhushan Pandey is
CEO of Unique Identification Authority of India, (UIDAI). UIDAI is the nodal
agency for implementing Aadhaar.
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