Digital Data Privacy Laws: An Outlook

Samhitha R & Madhumitha, Christ University, Bangalore

ABSTRACT:

The advent of globalization and technological development, several States, including India, have made the digitalisation of various sectors a priority in order to increase efficiency and reduce administrative lag. In the beginning, the Information Technology 2000 focused mainly on the personal data but the flaw was that there was discrepancy relating to several privacy related issues. It was very loosely formulated without any formal procedures. Then the Aadhar (Targeted Delivery of financial and other subsidies, Benefits and services act) Act 2016 which collected the biometric information and this invaded the digital privacy of people and then in order to protecting the transaction made and to protect and preserve the cyber law and recently, The Digital Data Protection Bill 2022 by India's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology ('MeitY') was introduced on 2nd January 2023 where it the silent features such as the consent aspect and also the lacunae in the bills, This paper attempts to understand the legal regimes present in different States which seek to provide protection against digital data privacy violations.

To understand whether India has an effective legal regime to comprehensively address digital data privacy concerns of its citizens. To delve into each legislation relating to digital data privacy to understand the extent of its protection and to identify the drawbacks of such legislations. To analyze legislations enacted to determine whether such regulations prove to be a more sophisticated and inclusive alternative in dealing with digital data privacy of its citizens.To examine whether the application of principles enshrined will aid in bridging the gap in Indian laws and thereby provide suggestions to fill the current lacunae in the existing legislations in India.

Keywords: Digital Data, Privacy, Personal data, legislations, lacunae