India: Privacy Protection

Generative AI can now reproduce a person's face, voice and mannerisms with a fidelity that the average viewer cannot tell apart from reality. What began as novelty content—face-swapped videos, synthetic voice clips circulated for entertainment—has, since 2023, become a live commercial and reputational threat.

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.

The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (“DPDP Rules”) were notified on 13 November 2025, more than two years after the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“DPDP Act” or “Act”) received Presidential assent. The Government has adopted a phased implementation approach, with most of the substantive obligations under the Act and Rules becoming operative 18 months from the date of notification, i.e., on 13 May 2027.

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.

An analysis of the APAAR Scheme, the Supreme Court’s directions requiring meaningful parental consent, opt-out rights and DPDP Act compliance, and why these amendments are necessary for protecting students’ personal data.

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.