Data privacy: Govt to come out with a legal framework, says Goyal

India will come out with a legal framework to ensure data privacy that will encourage free data flow among trusted partners, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said, as he sought investment in technology and innovation.

Speaking at the UK India Business Council's 'UK-India Technology Futures Conference,' the minister said India and the UK can collaborate on technology in the fields of AI education, telemedicine, climate modelling, precision agriculture and organic chemical, electronic and food industries.

Goyal pointed out that it will be important to understand how in the future the digital world and sustainability issues will intersect. A major portion of energy will be consumed by systems that will churn out data and that will have an impact on sustainability issues, he said, adding that there are very few places in the world where there is an interconnected grid in the way that India has.