Daijiworld Media Network – New Delhi

New Delhi, Nov 15: India has officially moved closer to a full-fledged privacy regime with the Union Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) on Friday notifying the long-awaited data protection rules, nearly eight years after the Supreme Court declared privacy a fundamental right. The rules follow more than two years after the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act) received Presidential assent in August 2023.

Even though the law is now operational, several crucial citizen protections will take another twelve to eighteen months to come into force. Provisions such as mandatory informed consent before data processing, limiting data use to legitimate purposes, and compulsory breach notifications to users will be implemented only after 18 months.

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