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India should ensure the growth of the digital economy while keeping personal data of citizens secure and protected. No one will innovate in a surveillance-oriented environment or in a place where an individual's personal information is compromised. The ultimate control of data must reside with the individuals who generate it; they should be enabled to use, restrict or monetize it as they wish. Therefore, data protection laws should enable the right kind of innovation-one that is user-centric and privacy protecting.

Based on the above passage, the following assumptions have been made:

1. Protection of privacy is not just a right, but it has value to the economy.

2. There is a fundamental link between privacy and innovation.

Which of the above assumptions is/are valid?

(A) 1 only

(B) 2 only

(C) Both 1 and 2

(D) Neither 1 nor 2