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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | The seduction of data sovereignty in India -Nayantara Ranganathan

The seduction of data sovereignty in India -Nayantara Ranganathan

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published Published on Aug 28, 2019   modified Modified on Aug 28, 2019
-Hindustan Times

It threatens individual sovereignty, undermines citizen rights, and is a lost chance to meaningfully grapple with data colonisation

Data is a sovereign asset,” said the Union minister of railways and commerce, Piyush Goyal, at the G20 meeting in Japan. Goyal was against using free trade agreements to justify the free flow of data. Instead, he said, government restrictions on data flows would allow India to be able to use “personal, community and public data” generated in the country towards the welfare and development of its people.

Undeniably, data sovereignty is an attractive concept. Anyone familiar with the business models of companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon would have an uneasy feeling about the extent of access these companies have to our behaviours and habits, and the magnitude of value they have amassed from the promise of this data. Their growing power creates not just concerns of privacy, but extends to encroaching public infrastructure functions like transport, health care and finance, often bulldozing local interests. Pit this against the challenges of unemployment, and the worldwide rush by regulators to make amends to the asymmetry of power between companies and people, and data sovereignty looks like a seductive proposition.

But how much do the people of the country really have to gain from the government’s flavour of data sovereignty? At first blush, the concept has an anti-colonial ring. But a closer look reveals that the government’s approach to data sovereignty simply replaces foreign companies reaping benefits from technological solutionism with Indian companies, while leaving the dangers created by data extractivism for Indian people intact.

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Hindustan Times, 26 August, 2019, https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/the-seduction-of-data-sovereignty-in-india/story-iOS8cVKxstIIgJLy47Iy0J.html?fbclid=IwAR20IBUqTLEWo80HSzxOd979v7QC_d0pHSmetzbx


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