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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Big Data, Large Concerns -Amba Kak & Jason Schultz

Big Data, Large Concerns -Amba Kak & Jason Schultz

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published Published on Feb 13, 2018   modified Modified on Feb 13, 2018
-The Indian Express

Consent and accountability should be at the core of the new privacy law.

The Supreme Court recently affirmed a fundamental right to privacy. The government is now moving to enact a data privacy law, the Justice Shri Krishna Committee has released a comprehensive report and the consultation process is coming to a close. Multiple legal challenges against Aadhaar — many involving citizens’ privacy — are being heard before the Supreme Court. The government is keen to assure the judges and the public that there are enough safeguards to keep the programme legal. But the privacy law will impact more than the future of Aadhaar. It will set the terms on which Indians share intimate data about themselves with both the government and a growing number of private companies.

Already, the Committee might be walking a troublesome path. It has suggested that while in the past “it was possible to limit the collection of data to satisfy a particular purpose”, in the era of big data “this may no longer hold true”. While the Committee does well to endorse the importance of user consent generally, when it comes to big data they suggest, “consent may not be as relevant”. Its effort to distinguish big data’s privacy modes from other data instead seems to echo an increasingly popular argument in policy circles globally — what Helen Nissenbaum refers to as “big data exceptionalism”. It’s the belief that regulating the collection of big data is impossible and undesirable. So the focus should be exclusively on preventing harmful uses and outcomes data. In India, prominent tech lawyer Rahul Matthan has argued that India should adopt an “accountability framework” rather than a consent framework. Why not both?

Big data exceptionalism is an attractive position, no doubt. Creating a regulated process to govern data collection can seem impractical, especially when the data is often an unexpected byproduct of everyday interactions — every step we take with our GPS-enabled phone, every post we “like” on Facebook, every purchase we make, every advertisement we watch. Supporters of big data exceptionalism also make the positive “profit” claim that unfettered data collection can unlock innovation. But this is just as likely to create real threats. Some of our research with Kate Crawford (cited by the Shri Krishna Committee) explores the far reaching consequences of big data and its “predictions” on our personal rights, especially when they are used to decide what to sell us, which businesses will interview us for jobs, and even what news we are allowed to see. A more forensic assessment of the threats of big data exceptionalism is needed.

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The Indian Express, 12 February, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/right-to-privacy-justice-krishna-committee-information-theft-big-data-large-concerns-5060033/


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