Spice Route Legal
Publicly available personal data exemption is unclear
With the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA), soon to be brought into force, individuals will see greater protection of their personal data. However, a seemingly extensive category of such data will be entirely exempt from scrutiny – “publicly available” data, which is data relating to an individual that is caused to be made public either by the individual themselves or by an entity under a legal obligation.
