“The JPC would do well to hasten slowly, and take on board the suggestions of as large a swathe of stakeholders as is possible. Does he not know that all data protection laws consider “Profiling” as regulated personal data? Is he saying that PDPB should not cover use of AI or Big data for processing personal data? or Is he confusing the non personal data governance act which is only a recommendation now by the Kris Gopalakrishna Committee ?. We donot know what the editor wants to say here. “The Personal Data Protection Bill (PDPB), right now under consideration by a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC), is big, in its sweep, intent and implications, particularly for future competitiveness of the economy, in terms of data being available to train algorithms that would drive artificial intelligence, even as individual citizens are protected from harm arising from misuse of their data.” While “Hasten…Slowly” phrase indicates that the editorial perhaps has not been written by a person who is of the editor caliber, there are many statements in the editorial which is factually incorrect.

It is disappointing to see Economic Times editorial being so compromised.

Now two editorials of two different publications of the same group writing on the same day about the need to delay PDPB indicates another PR exercise where the two editors have written what the PR firm wanted them to write. “Hasten.slowly…”Ī few days back we saw similar reports appearing in two different publications namely and both carrying the same view but under two different bylines, indicating clearly that it was a planted story by a PR firm.

In fact this editorial is direct in expressing its intention because it suggests “Don’t Rush Personal Data Protection Bill”…. We have just discussed the editorial in Times of India today and now we also have an editorial in Economic Times with similar sentiments expressed about the PDPB.

Hasten slowly