Draft on data anonymisation missing from website week after release

Documents were to be open for public comments till September 21, civil society groups protest 'removal'

Two draft documents listing guidelines on data anonymisation and mobile security were on Tuesday missing from a government website, a week after being put up for public consultation.

Anonymisation is a technique that removes or modifies personally identifiable information, resulting in data that cannot be associated with any one individual. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has not said why the document, 'Guidelines for Anonymisation of Data (AoD) and Mobile Security Guidelines (MSG), was removed from the official portal for e-governance standards after being put up there on August 30. Details shared with the documents had said public