IT ministry releases draft mobile security and anonymisation of data guidelines

Key Points of the Guidelines:

• The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity) through e-Governance Standards and Guidelines has released two draft documents on mobile security guidelines (MSG) and anonymisation of data (AoD).
• e-Governance Standards and Guidelines is a project formulated by the Standardisation Testing & Quality Certification (STQC) Directorate and Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) to formulate fresh or revise the existing standards, guidelines and/or framework in allied areas of e-governance.
• These   AoD guidelines will provide information and guidance on anonymisation of data and will help enhance privacy protection through case-dependent data anonymisation while processing, publishing, storing or sharing data with other entities,” the document read.

What is Always On Display (AOD) :

• Always On Display (AOD) is a smartphone feature that has the device continue to show limited information while the phone is asleep. It is widely available on Android handsets. On some Android phones, the feature is called Ambient Display or Active Display depending on its implementation and behavior.