Digital Privacy and Data Protection in the Internet Age

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In the contemporary era, digital privacy and data protection has emerged as a critical area of concern by virtue of propelling use of technologies in request digitization. According to the United Nations, privacy remains a fundamental human right in the digital era. However, the accelerating amount of data consumption has reduced privacy to a distributed, prosaic, and a technologically mediated concept. Thus, privacy rights have emerged as a cornerstone of individual freedom and autonomy in the digital age. This paper delves into the sophistication and challenges of privacy and data protection in the digital era along with mapping out the various legal provisions in India in the context of datafication. Further, it throws light onto the key judicial pronouncements and the current legislative developments regarding digital privacy and the protection of data along with a comparative insight with the international frameworks. This aims to provide an enhanced understanding of the entwinement of technological, regulatory and the ethical dynamics. Therefore, it fulfills the need for broader conceptual understanding of the preservation of privacy and data in the increasing era of datafication while focusing on the analogous attempts taken in India.

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