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Why the draft health data management policy raises red flags about privacy

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Mint spoke to Raman Jit Singh Chima, Asia Policy Director and Senior International Counsel at Access Now and founding volunteer with the SaveTheInternet.in Net Neutrality Coalition, on the privacy concerns around the policy as well as other challenges moving forward.

Chima is also board chairperson at IFF.From a privacy perspective, what are your biggest concerns regarding the policy, considering India is yet to enact a data privacy law?The Union government should be focused on enacting a strong, horizontally applicable data protection law and creating an effective independent regulator— a data protection authority or privacy commission—that oversees further sectoral regulation making on data and provides Indian residents redress and remedy.

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