data management: acts, rules and policies in india
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Right to Information Act-2005
• Sec 2 (f)- data in electronic for, reports• Sec 4(b)- Access through network• Sec 8- negative list. Sec 8(9)– Endanger life or physical safety-AIPR– Integrity- particular class vs working
efficiency/ particular instt vs WE– IPR/trade/competitiveness
• Sec 9- Rejection/ infringement of copyright Act in digital library
• Citizens of India vs State
Information Technology Act-2000
• Offences/contravention by any individual in India or abroad
• 43-A- penalty to damage computer, system, network
• 43-B- download, extract data• 72- penalty for breach of
confidentiality/privacy- imprisonment up to two years
Information Technology Act-2008
• 43-A- widen scope- firms handling processing under body corporate/ reasonable security practices and procedures
• 70-A- national nodal agency for critical information structure
• 72-A- including intermediaries (AMC), imprisonment up to 3 years, penalty- Rs 5Lakh
• 77 & 78- enlarged and expended i.e. Investigating Officer of DSP rank
IT (Reasonable security practices & procedures and sensitive
personal data or information) Rules-2011
• Rule-3- SPDI- biometric data, DNA profile, sexual orientation– Women from Tamil Nadu vs working efficiency?– Name of farmer-type of soil-yield-income-
community of neighboring farmers- loan from money lender-community of farmer-BPL cat.
• EC regulation 95/46- identification with 1 or more factors including economic, cultural, social identity
• Rule-8- Keeping secure• RTI Act prevail upon IT Act
Other Act (s)
• Biological Diversity Act-2002• Indian Copyright
The personal data (protection) bill-2013
• Handwriting, gait analysis, speech• Sensitive personal data- sexual
preferences, ethnicity, financial information
• Data collection with PIC• No exemption
Geo-data
• International boundary• Treaty of Sugauli- 1816• Durand line- 1893• Mc Mohan line- 1914• Radcliffe line- 17 August 1947• http
://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-maps-depending-on-where-you-view-them/
The Economist-2012/ BBC-2014
Xiaomi launch in Delhi
The geospatial information regulation bill-2016
• Citizens of India/ outside of India• Any person commit offence beyond India• National security, sovereignty, safety
and integrity • Security Vetting Authority- data-
acquisition, possession, dissemination, publication outside India
• Wrong depiction of boundaries including international boundary
National Map Policy-2005• Survey of India- SOI• Defense Series Maps- classified by Defense only/
Open Series Maps- unrestricted with one time clearance from Defense
• Digital topographical data- license to only Indians• Map Transaction Registry• Licenses for several purposes- publishing, value
addition etc [care to be taken as per NMP in value addition]
• Copyright with SOI• Permission if international boundary
Remote Sensing Data Policy-2011
• Dept. of Space• Data for >1 meter resolution by
govt. Department only. For private recommendation of any Govt. Dept required
• NRSC and user specific sale/ non-disclosure agreement
National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy- 2012
• Fulfil sec 4(2) of RTI Act-2005• Open access• Data access (negative list, restricted data,
sensitive data, sharable data)• Implementation guidelines-2013• Data portal of India [https://data.gov.in/ • Data controller/ Data contributor-
https://datacms.nic.in• Hand written, OCR, PDF- not allowed• File name- @, % etc not allowed
Open Access Policies• OER Policy- 2007 [MHRD] National Mission
on Education through ICT– Creative commons/ OER commons
• Free & Open Source Software Policy (FOSS) - 2015 [MHRD]– Free- freedom to use– Open source- availability of source code
• Open Access Policy of ICAR-2013– Open Access Repository (OAR) with central
harvesting– Strengthen OAR
Your Own Policy?• National and International workshops
– Creative commons and OER commons• Koha based library management• NAARM- OAR
– www.eprints.naarm.org.in/– NAARM annual report
• NAARM- FOSS- AHP Analyser– www.ahpanalyser.naarm.org.in/
• NAARM Dataverse– https://
dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/NAARM;jsessionid=e1752f3bd7c23923be8412356d9e