The Indian government has oscillated between a non-regulatory approach, to foster innovation, and a more cautious one, with an emphasis on mitigating user harm.
The DPDPA is an opportunity for governments to improve their data ecosystem and enable evidence-driven decision-making, transparency, and renewed accountability
Whenever the topic of surveillance is broached, even amongst the critics, there is often an underlying sense of necessity on the one hand and inevitability on the other.