Saturday, January 18, 2020

Civil Aviation Ministry denies that sensitive personal data of drone operators is with a private company

The Ministry of Civil Aviation has denied a Quint report that suggested that sensitive personal data of drone owners was being collected by a private entity. According to the Quint report published on January 16, sensitive personal data about drone operators was “being collected not by the government but by a private entity whose identity or information has not been disclosed”. However, the Ministry told MediaNama via email that the company in question, Happiest Mind Technologies, was a system integrator and that “data is not in any private hand”.
Since the Digital Sky platform is still in the process of being built, it is unclear whether the system integrator will have any visibility into the sensitive personal data about drone owners that the government collects through the platform. We have asked the Ministry for more details about the system integrator’s role in the process.
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