Data Privacy Laws: Comparative Study India Wi...

Data Privacy Laws: Comparative Study India With Other Countries

Author Name : Yash Chauhan, Dr. Shefali Raizada

DOI: https://doi.org/10.56025/IJARESM.2025.130425233

INTRODUCTION In the absence of specific legislation for data protection in India, the knowledge Technology Act 2000 (the IT Act) and a set of other statutes substitute for this purpose. In 2017, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that Indian citizens have a fundamental right to privacy, guaranteed primarily under Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. The Court specified that this right includes, inter alia, the proper to informational privacy. Within the wake of this judgment, and so as to offer it meaning within the sort of comprehensive legislation, the govt empanelled a 10-member committee under the chairmanship of Justice BN Srikrishna, a former Supreme Court Justice. The Srikrishna committee was asked to compile an in-depth review of existing laws relevant to the topic. In 2018, the Srikrishna committee published a report running into over 200 pages. The Srikrishna report examined the present patchwork of relevant laws in India, studied the statutory approach to privacy and data protection in other jurisidctions and laid out detailed rationale for an improved legal framework. The report was amid the draft Personal Data Protection Bill 2018.