Govt sold vehicular data to private firm years before formulating data sharing policy: Report
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We missed this earlier: In a September 2014 deal, the Indian government sold a copy of the country’s entire vehicle registration database to a private Indian company. The Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) database sold, in objection of government officials around pricing, to Fast Lane Automotive Pvt. Ltd. These revelations were reported by The Reporters’ Collective on the basis of RTIs filed by the Srinivas Kodali and Sreegireesh Jalihal.
The deal was signed five years before MoRTH announced the official Bulk Data Sharing Policy of 2019 that opened up bulk data purchase to all buyers. This policy was scrapped in 2020 over privacy concerns, but Fast Lane continues to have to the data.