Data Protection and Privacy in Cyberspace- National and International perspective

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Dr. Deepti Khubalkar

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Data protection and data privacy issues including the compliance is becoming utmost important especially during Covid-19 pandemic where all are majorly relying on internet and online platforms. This chapter highlight the importance of legal framework in India to provide protection for consumers and privacy considerations for organisations with respect to electronic data. This chapter also talks about the lack of mechanism to compel organisations carrying data to delete or remove if there is no compelling reason for an organization to carry on processing it including the sensitive, personal data and privacy policies and liabilities. This chapter also analyse the present legal protection to data privacy in India and bill relating to data protection and privacy in India which is almost ready to be implemented. In this chapter author also attempting to explore the European union laws of data protection. 


The objective of this chapter is to understand and explore the right to privacy and its application on data protection in cyberspace and how they link up, how it evolved during the time, essence of the Personal Data Protection bill and liability and role of internet service providers. This Chapter will also attempt to highlight the importance of data protection and intellectual property rights and related patent law and procedural issues.

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