Other recommendations include improving data breach information sharing, having the government establish data sandboxes, re-examining encryption standards and considering the granting of specific consumer privacy rights, including the right to be forgotten.  

TRAI had issued a consultation paper, "Privacy, Security and Ownership of the Data in the Telecom Sector" last year with the objective of identifying key data protection issues in the delivery of digital services through telecommunication systems. Based on the response to that paper, it has identified priority steps telecom companies should take.  

The authority stresses that consumers own their data and that entities controlling or processing their information are "mere custodians and do not have primary rights over this data."