Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No. 3478 - Privacy of User Data, 2018
AI / PRIVACY / CYBER RELEVANCE
Historical context for profiling, telecom privacy and the move toward comprehensive data protection.
AI: ContextualPrivacy: ModerateCybersecurity: Contextual
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PURVIEW
Records a parliamentary question and the Government’s response concerning privacy of user data, providing an early snapshot of the policy concerns surrounding digital data protection in India. Its significance is historical: it predates the DPDP Act and helps demonstrate that questions of user-data privacy, governmental safeguards and accountability were already being raised at the parliamentary level as India’s digital ecosystem expanded. For AI, the document is useful as contextual evidence of the policy trajectory from general concerns about user-data protection toward a formal horizontal privacy statute capable of covering data-intensive and automated processing.
Classification and legal status. Parliamentary record; no binding force.