{"id":256113,"date":"2023-08-14T19:58:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=256113"},"modified":"2023-08-29T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:38:35","slug":"personal-data-protection-a-thinking-persons-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/personal-data-protection-a-thinking-persons-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal data protection &#8211; A thinking person\u2019s guide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Personal data protection &#8211; A thinking person\u2019s guide<\/strong>\u201d published in<strong> Business Standard <\/strong>on\u00a0<strong>14<sup>th<\/sup> August 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: <\/strong><strong>GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>About <\/strong>Digital Personal Data Protection law<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Recently, the Parliament passed the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Read Here: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/digital-personal-data-protection-bill-2023-explained-pointwise\/\"><strong>Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023: Explained<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why was the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 needed?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Previously, privacy meant personal matters like income, caste, and health issues and the debate on data protection law usually revolved around these problems.<\/p>\n<p>However, the negative uses of digital data went unquestioned for years until the <strong>Cambridge Analytica Scandal in 2018.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This scandal revealed that the British company had gathered data from 87 million Facebook users for aiding Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 election campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, government around the world expressed worries about the potential misuse of the digital data. This made India to enact Digital Personal Data Protection law.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What are the issues being faced by the government worldwide in implementing Digital Personal Data Protection Law?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> governments face challenge with balancing the interests of businesses and citizens regarding personal data usage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> governments find themselves competing with other nations in leveraging their citizens&#8217; data for national defense and geopolitical objectives.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What lies ahead?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>With the enactment of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023, India has taken a great step. Other countries should also consider taking similar steps while considering the concerns of all stakeholders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cPersonal data protection &#8211; A thinking person\u2019s guide\u201d published in Business Standard on\u00a014th August 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Government Policies and Interventions for Development in various sectors and Issues arising out of their Design and Implementation. Relevance: About Digital Personal Data Protection law News: Recently, the Parliament&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/personal-data-protection-a-thinking-persons-guide\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Personal data protection &#8211; A thinking person\u2019s guide<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,225],"class_list":["post-256113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-polity","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}