Kris Gopalakrishnan Committee

A government committee headed by Infosys co-founder Kris Gopalakrishnan has suggested that non-personal data generated in the country be allowed to be harnessed by various domestic companies and entities.
Non-personal data is any set of data which does not contain personally identifiable information.
This in essence means that no individual or living person can be identified by looking at such data.
Unlike personal data, which contains explicit information about a person’s name, age, gender, sexual orientation, biometrics and other genetic details, non-personal data is more likely to be in an anonymised form.
The committee has also suggested setting up of a new authority which would be empowered to monitor the use and mining of such non-personal data.