Gazette of India · ExtraordinaryAssented 11 August 2023
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023
An Act to provide for the processing of digital personal data in a manner that recognises both the right of individuals to protect their personal data and the need to process such personal data for lawful purposes and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Be it enacted by Parliament in the Seventy-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-
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