Six years after the Supreme Court held privacy as a fundamental right in a landmark judgement, India finally has a data protection law. On Saturday, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 was published in the official gazette after receiving the President’s assent on Friday, making India one of the final democracies in the world to have a regulatory framework for privacy. But the law has received a mixed response, with concerns around wide-ranging government exemptions and dilution of powers of the data protection board. In an interview with Soumyarendra Barik, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics and IT responds to questions about the most contentious provisions in the law. Edited excerpts:
Sec. 3 (c) (ii) The provisions of this Act shall not apply to personal data that is made or caused to be made publicly available by… the data principal
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