Data Protection Laws In India: The Road Ahead

With the advent of technology and e-commerce, the problems related to the same are also increasing day by day. India itself has faced a tremendous increase in cyber crimes, data stealing etc. The cyber protection cells have witnessed various instances of data theft recently. India, being the host and the biggest platform of data outsourcing needs an effective and well formulated mechanism for dealing with these crimes. Data Protection laws may be defined as the laws which are enacted for safeguarding and protecting the data present on the internet.

India has witnessed various high profile data theft cases off lately. One of the biggest incidents of data theft was the HSBC case, wherein a former employee of HSBC, the biggest bank of Europe, committed a fraud that affected millions of its customers. This theft not only caused harm to numerous of the Bank's customers but also left a permanent question mark on the year long reputation and Reliability of the Bank.