Ravi Shankar Prasad today asked the global community to work on protection of data privacy while emphasising on innovations using data analytics.

“In India, 1.08 billion mobile phones, 60 million smartphones are a data, 112 billion Aadhaar is a data but on the other side, it is an equally important issue that data is mine. I am the individual. Why should my data be made public,” Prasad said at the “International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV)”.

The minister said there are strict clauses to maintain the privacy of Aadhaar holders as per the Aadhaar Act.