legislation safeguarding personal data. The culmination of this endeavour over the last seven years and after multiple iterations is the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act), representing a significant milestone of India’s journey towards ensuring data privacy rights for...
India enacted its new privacy law—the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) on August 11. Once in effect, the DPDP Act will replace the relevant provisions of the Information Technology Act, 2000, Information Technology (Amendment) Act, 2008, and the Information Tech...
Section 3(b) of the DPDP Act specifies that the Act shall “also apply to the processing of digital personal data outside the territory of India if such processing is in connection with any activity related to the offering of goods or services to Data Principals within the territory of Ind...
After six years in the making, India now has a data protection law after the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 was passed by the parliament and received the president’s assent on August 11. While the law is yet to go into effect, companies will have to start working on...
(DPDP) Act, 2023, which aims to address the gaps identified in the previous bill and align India’s data protection laws with global standards. The DPDP Act, 2023, establishes a comprehensive legal framework for the processing of personal data, ensuring that data fiduciaries adhere to ...
Since the law goes into effect midway through 2023, businesses should expect updates to the law via rulemaking in the first half of the year. Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) In March 2022,Utah became the fourth stateto enact a comprehensive consumer privacy law, which will take effect on ...
Singapore Privacy India's omnibus data protection legislation, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("India's DPDPA"), was passed and gazetted in August 2023. Notably, it shares several common concepts with Singapore's Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("Singapore's PDPA"...
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The study reviews the provisions and privacy implications of the India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (referred to as "DPDP Act" in this study) from the library context. The immense nature of personal data breaches prompted the government to enact the DP...
(As of August. 2022) with stark criticism from stakeholders that believed the bill would give the government too much power over the data of its citizens. New legislation was approved by the president of India in August 2023. India’sDigital Personal Data Protection Act(DPDP)is anticipated to...