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India’s privacy regime must find an optimal balance that survives without falling into extreme traps

India’s privacy regime must find an optimal balance that survives without falling into extreme traps

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.