India’s privacy regime must find an optimal balance that survives without falling into extreme traps
Odysseus’s ‘homecoming’ was fraught with challenges, but these made him a better man. The ongoing constitutional challenges before the judiciary will serve as critical stress tests. Through judicial refinement and the framing of delegated rules, the DPDP Act may achieve a calibrated balance between technological utility, democratic transparency and fundamental privacy rights, all before it finally arrives home next year.
