India: Privacy Protection

An analysis of cross-border pharmaceutical data licensing under India’s DPDP framework, examining clinical-trial data, health information, contractual safeguards, EU transfer requirements, regulatory data protection and the changing India-EU digital trade relationship.

In the contemporary digital age, the phenomenon of "trial by media" represents a significant challenge to the constitutional right to a fair trial. Media trials are defined as "certain regional or national new 'events' in which the criminal justice system is co-opted by media as a source of high drama entertainment". This concept refers to the influence of television, newspaper, and social media coverage on an individual's reputation, effectively shaping public perception of guilt or innocence before or after a judicial verdict.

Hanuman Ansh, produced for just 2 crore rupees, has now made over 250 crore. And there is a legal reason it could tell this story so cheaply. The first is a marketing miracle. The second is a quiet point of law. Let me take both. It is a devotional drama about Neem Karoli Baba, made by a first-time filmmaker, Vishal Chaturvedi, from his own book. It opened on August 7 to a day-one collection of just ten lakh. Almost nobody knew it existed.

Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized the production, reproduction and dissemination of creative works, as well as posing intricate challenges for copyright law. A major type of synthetic media, deepfakes also pose further issues regarding copyright violations, personality rights, privacy concerns, and intermediary liability.

Clients now come with a problem to solve rather than a role to fill. That shift is changing what secondments are used for, and it may change how General Counsel plan their teams.

As India implements the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, employers must navigate complex requirements for collecting, processing, and protecting employee information. Understanding the legal framework, security obligations, and employee rights is essential for HR departments coordinating with legal, IT, and management teams to ensure compliance.

India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 introduce specific safeguards for children's personal data, including verifiable parental consent and restrictions on tracking, behavioural monitoring and targeted advertising. For businesses operating mobile applications and websites used by children, privacy compliance cannot be reduced to a privacy policy or consent button—it requires understanding what data is collected, how child users are iden

On May 29, 2026, the Delhi High Court delivered a landmark judgment in a batch of petitions that raised the same question, that stood at the intersection of constitutional law and the digital age viz. whether an individual whose name appears in judicial records that are accessible through internet search engines is entitled, by virtue of the right to informational privacy guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution, to seek de-indexing of those records from name-based search results and masking of personal identifiers (including names) from publicly accessible digital versions of those records.

On June 01, 2026, the Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) issued a significant order against Physicswallah Limited (hereinafter referred to as Party), the EdTech unicorn behind the pw.live platform, finding it guilty of deploying three distinct dark patterns. The matter taken up suo moto by CCPA culminated in a penalty of INR 5,00,000 and a binding direction to eliminate all dark patterns from the platform immediately.