‘Industry seeks data; govt prioritises privacy’

Bengaluru | Wednesday | 12th February, 2020

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The words were geo-tagged to find out where they were emerging from,” said Director, IT & BT, and Managing Director, Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society, Prashant Kumar Mishra. He was talking at the two-day ‘AI Application and Digi-Tech’ Summit and exposition here on Tuesday. There is a demand for more data because Artificial Intelligence (AI) will become more robust if there are more users, Prashant added. Although the industrial sector wants data, data privacy is a priority to the government which is looking to have a robust system where personal data is not misused while generic data is used for development purposes, he added. An example of the uses of AI can be seen in the manner in which the forest department uses data to analyse the best price the department can get for its timber reserve..