Google warns against sharing of citizen data

Google chief privacy officer ,Keith Enright, has warned policy makers that frequent and large scale sharing of citizen data even in anonymized can damage user's privacy. Pointing to research that shows data sets lose their anonymity if shared consistently over time is shared consistently. Anonymization ise technique that removes or modifies personally identifiable information, resulting in data that cannot be associated with anyone individual. Google says it can be built safe and valuable products for its search services by using anonymised data .on May 26 India's ministry of electronics and information technology came out with a new draft  framework for governance so citizen data that proposed ways to ensure that non personal and anonymized data sets from both government as well as private entities were safely  accessible by the research and innovation ecosystem. The new draft did not talk about monetizing this data which can earlier draft of February this year had and 

 triggered a fuorore from privacy activists.Enright speaking to journalists in India from the united states during a virtual meeting ,conceded that use of anonymous data posed fewer risks to personally identifiable information.