India: Privacy

India's regulatory landscape for financial record-keeping has undergone a quiet but consequential transformation over the past several years. The migration of books of accounts from physical ledgers to cloud-hosted platforms and SaaS-based enterprise resource planning systems has dramatically altered not just how financial data is stored, but where it resides and that question of where has become a matter of acute legal consequence.

India is well-positioned to capitalise on the growth and transformative potential of artificial intelligence ("AI"). With over six million people employed across the technology and AI ecosystem, over USD 1.1 billion in proposed Government investment, and a projected economic contribution of USD 1.7 trillion by 2035, India is poised to become a key driver in the global AI economy.

Artificial Intelligence’s great advance, deepfake technology, and digital content creation has very much transformed the online environment. Though these new technologies bring out many benefits...

Artificial Intelligence’s great advance, deepfake technology, and digital content creation has very much transformed the online environment. Though these new technologies bring out many benefits...

The Supreme Court dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the constitutionality of digital search and seizure powers under Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 and the corresponding Section 247 of the Income Tax Act, 2025 on March 9, 2026. Chief Justice Surya Kant’s bench refused to entertain arguments that warrantless access to cloud servers, emails, and encrypted devices violates Article 21 privacy rights, holding that existing judicial review mechanisms adequately safeguard taxpayers while enabling tax evasion combat.

The Delhi High Court has established India's first comprehensive legal framework for the right to be forgotten, addressing whether individuals can seek de-indexing of judicial records from search results and masking of personal identifiers from digital court records.