India has recently introduced its first-ever Privacy law, called the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023’ (“Act”). The legislation has successfully been approved from all the channels and received President’s assent on 11th August 2023. Subsequently, it was officially announced in the official gazette. The primary objective of this Act is to regulate the handling of digital personal data, balancing the rights of individuals to safeguard their personal information with the necessity of processing such data for lawful purposes.
