Invoking Mahatma Gandhi’s movement against colonisation, Reliance Industries Chairman and MD Mukesh Ambani today urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to lead a fight against “data colonisation”, saying that Indian data must be “owned and controlled” by Indians.
“I pay homage to Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of our Nation, in the year of his 150th birth anniversary. Gandhiji led India’s movement against political colonisation… Today, we have to collectively launch a new movement against data colonisation,” he said addressing the “Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit 2019” here inaugurated by Modi.
Asserting that the data is the “new oil and wealth” in the new world, he said India’s data must not be controlled by corporates, especially global corporations.