Living in a fragmented world: India’s data way

ABSTRACT

This article examines India’s treatment of data and its relationship with sovereignty. In the absence of international norms or standards, the article draws on the various data-related rules, regulations, and policies, the country’s international stance on data, and the developments in its ongoing journey to a privacy law to infer how the Indian government seeks to exercise sovereign control over Indian data. The article shows that India’s treatment of data is a lot more nuanced and mobile than otherwise suggested. Instead, it is driven by more by economic and security imperatives rather than the need for control over Indian data.

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Notes

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