Building Digital Trust Through Zero Data Storage and Decentralised Identity
As India’s digital public infrastructure expands, privacy is evolving from a compliance requirement into the foundation of digital trust. In this interview, Siddharth Sharma, Chief Information and Innovation Officer at Digi Yatra Foundation, discusses decentralised identity, zero data storage, dynamic consent, and how privacy-by-design can enable innovation, efficiency, and user control at scale.
India’s digital public infrastructure ecosystem is expanding rapidly across sectors. From your perspective, how is the conversation around data privacy evolving from a compliance-led discussion to a larger question of digital trust and governance?
The conversation is shifting because compliance is merely a baseline. Historically, organisations treated privacy as a legal hurdle. Today, in the context of India’s rapidly expanding digital public infrastructure, privacy is the foundation of digital trust. This change is being led by responsible-by-design and privacy-by-design principles, alongside technologies such as Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI), where individuals actually control their data.
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