In brief Companies operating in India should note that India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (“DPDPA”) is expected to come into effect by the end of 2024. India enacted the DPDPA, its first comprehensive data privacy law on August 11, 2023. The DPDPA largely aligns with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the California’s Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) but includes unique, consumer-friendly features, such as expanded consumer rights and newly established requirement…
On August 9, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 (“DPDP Bill”) passed both houses of the Indian Parliament and now awaits Presidential assent. In 2017, India’s Supreme Court mandated that privacy is a fundamental human right. Since that time, India has been working to pass data protection legislation. The DPDP Bill is India’s fifth draft of the bill. The DPDP Bill only applies to the processing of digital personal data in India, where the personal…
28 January 2023 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. To mark Data Protection Day 2023, Baker McKenzie’s Global Data Privacy and Security Team is pleased to present this special edition update of key data protection and privacy developments and trends across the globe, as well summarising future legislative changes, predictions, and enforcement priorities to look out for during 2023.…
In this article published by the Financial Express, partner Anne Petterd explains why an important issue for the e-commerce sector in preparing for the new Indian law will be to recognize that data is not solely the concern of privacy regulators. Competition and consumer regulatory issues are also being raised in relation to processing personal and other data. Click here to read.