Passage: India should ensure the growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens…
Passage: India should ensure the growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens secure and protected. No one will innovate in a surveillance-oriented environment or in a place where an individual's personal information is compromised. The ultimate control of data must reside with the individuals who generate it; they should be enabled to use, restrict or monetise it as they wish. Therefore, data protection laws should enable the right kind of innovation — one that is user-centric and privacy protecting.
Question: Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:
1. Protection of privacy is not just a right, but it has value to the economy.
2. There is a fundamental link between privacy and innovation.
Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?
1 only
2 only
Both 1 and 2
Neither 1 nor 2
Solution
Assumption 1 is valid — protecting privacy supports the digital economy, giving it economic value. Assumption 2 is valid — the passage states no one will innovate in a surveillance-oriented environment, linking privacy and innovation. Both assumptions are valid.