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45% SMEs against Centre's right to seek customer, supplier data
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SME Times News Bureau | 21 Jan, 2020
Around 45 per cent of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups
are opposed to the government's right to seek anonymised data of their
customers and suppliers under the Personal Data Protection Bill,
according to a survey by LocalCircles.
The Data Protection Bill
defines a framework for handling of personal data including its
processing by various public and private companies and gives the Indian
government the right to seek anonymised data of citizens from any
business or company at any time.
The survey by the community
social media platform showed 45 per cent said they were against it, 45
per cent said they were okay with it, while 10 per cent of respondents
were unsure.
On the subject of the government's rights over the
aggregate data of businesses, startups opposing the rights say it should
only be permitted in the event of a law-order, investigation or
enforcement situations. For routine matters, government should have
access to neither the aggregate data nor the algorithms used by a
business as such an access can be easily misused or compromised, they
said.
On the data sharing front, many startups operate in new
areas and bring about an innovation in product, technology intervention
or service and many of the cutting-edge technologies are still developed
overseas.
The survey showed that many startups need access to
overseas resources, expertise, tools and capital because not all of them
are available in India and therefore, Indian startups may need to open
offices overseas and hire resources there to develop their product or
service and, in many cases, will have a need to share aggregate data
between resources and legal entities.
It becomes imperative,
therefore, that aggregate data of Indian startups be permitted to be
shared with atleast their entities and group companies they have
overseas.
"Similarly, if a foreign company acquires an Indian
startup, they may have plans to take the product/service developed by
the startup and scale it further globally and hence would require access
to aggregate data of the startup." the LocalCircles' report said.
The survey received 4,923 responses from various startups, SMEs and entrepreneurs.
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