New rules of DPDP Act and 2025 – ryan

Digital Personal Data Security (DPDP) Act, 2025 The beginning is a historical step leading to India to a secrecy-transportation society. While development is taking place at a high speed of technology, new challenges of data violations are also coming out. In such a situation, data security has now become the primary responsibility of the state, not just a technical issue.

What is DPDP Act?

DPDP Act, 2023, is a major law brought by the Government of India Digital data Ensures safety of. Its purpose is to ensure that the privacy rights of individuals are not violated when collected, collected, processed and transferred by organizations.

What types of data are included in the Act?

This law is particularly “Digital personal dataIt is associated with. This includes:

  • Information related to personal identity: Such as name, phone number, email, address, date of birth, PAN, Passport Number.
  • financial information: Bank Account, UPI ID.
  • Biometric data: Fingerprint, iris scan, face recognition.
  • Technical Data: IP address, cookies, device id, location data.

Two major categories:

  1. personal data: The information that can identify a person directly or indirectly.
  2. Digitally processed data: The data that has been stored or processed through digital means that it has started offline. This includes sensitive data such as health, financial, genetic, sexual orientation, caste and religion. More stringent rules have been set for their safety, especially in the context of data of children and disabled.

“Personal data is new currency”

In today’s digital era, this saying seems completely true. The price of data is no longer less than any property. In such a situation, protecting the privacy rights of citizens has become more important than ever.

Although earlier the government had proposed a strict proposal to keep data within the country, but due to public reaction, this provision was not placed in the final Act.

What is policy on international data transfer?

According to Rule 14 of Section 16 and 2025, the central government will publish a list of countries where data transfer will be restricted. Also, what conditions and procedures have to be followed in countries where necessary to send data – this will also be clarified.

conclusion:

Dpdp actDraft rules of 2023 and 2025 are a big step towards making India a digital safe nation. This law not only talks about the protection of data, but it also recognizes the fundamental right to privacy of citizens.

Effective implementation of this law is expected that the trust between the digital economy and citizens in India will deepen – because the future is digital, and that will be safe only when your data is safe.

Advocate Ankit Prasad

(Writer is a practicing lawyer at Hon’ble High Court of Delhi)

ankitprasad965@gmail.com