Asia: Privacy

By contrast, post 2010, India witnessed explosive digital growth. By the 2014 general elections, political parties were estimated to have spent between Rs. 400 crores and Rs. 500 crores on digital platforms alone, constituting nearly 15% of the total political advertising expenditure.

Much of the discussion around artificial intelligence ("AI") regulation in Thailand focuses on future legislation. Less attention is paid to the obligations that already exist. For businesses deploying AI systems, Thailand's Personal Data Protection Act B.E. 2562 (2019) ("PDPA") is already engaged and, in practice, any system involving personal data falls within its scope

India is on the verge of implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDPA"). To assist the industry with compliance, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY"), is exploring a "law-to-code" framework that seeks to build compliance directly into technological infrastructure by converting law into machine-executable rules capable of being automatically implemented within digital systems.