India’s Big Leaky Data
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unabashedly declared that data is “real wealth,” which enable “whoever acquires and controls” it to attain “hegemony.” But to protect the people who are generating that wealth, Modi must follow through on his campaign promise to deliver “minimum government, maximum governance.”
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NEW DELHI – India has no coltan or rare earths, little oil, and not enough water. What it does have is people – 1.3 billion and counting. That makes India potentially very rich in what has been called the “new oil”: data. But who will benefit from that wealth, and who might be put at risk?