Privacy in the time of social media

A better approach would have been to draw some guardrails around the purpose for which publicly available data can be used instead of excluding it from the purview of the legislation itself. While Indian courts recognize privacy as a fundamental right, the DPDPA appears skewed towards facilitating ease of doing business in India, often overlooking the harm caused to individuals and the need for compensation.

Please click here to read the full article by Akshaya Suresh, published in ET CISO.