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    597 : India’s Quest for Data Protection

    Dr Rahul Choudhury

    10 August 2018

    Growing concerns about data privacy has led India to formulate a number of policies to protect the privacy of its citizen and other stakeholders, as well as to support its goal of becoming a digital and technologically-advanced economy. This paper assesses the various data protection-related policies enacted by the country and highlights the contradictions among the various policies.