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  1. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and its newly notified Rules risk reshaping India’s information ecosystem, and not for the better.
    Without a journalistic exemption and with a weakened RTI framework, the law threatens press freedom, public interest reporting, and democratic transparency.

    If you believe in protecting press freedom and digital rights, support our work at SFLC.in.

    Read the whole analysisthrough the QR code or at: sflc.in/implications-of-the-di

    #pressfreedom #RTI #dpdpact

  2. Mishi Choudhary, founder of @sflcin, spoke with The Economic Times about the #DigitalPersonalDataProtection Rules.

    She said, "Under the Act, The #Government of India will issue a notification exempting certain Data Fiduciaries or class of Data Fiduciaries, including startups, from certain provisions of the #DPDPAct. This notification will be based on the volume and nature of #personaldata processed."

    Read the full article here: legal.economictimes.indiatimes

  3. India’s data protection law does little for privacy while bolstering the state’s surveillance powers

    The Act contains significant exemptions that allow the government and other government instrumentalities to exempt themselves from the application of the Act.

    scroll.in/article/1054722/indi

    #DPDPAct #DataProtection #PersonalData #law #privacy #StateSurveillance #RTI #rights #surveillance #india