Indian firms yet to realise importance of protecting user data

SC said in Right to Privacy judgment that electronic tracks contain powerful means of information

The Supreme Court ruled last week that privacy is a fundamental right of citizens. Indian businesses, however, are yet to fully realise the importance of protecting user data.

With little regulation of how companies can store and utilise personal data of users, India provides a massive base of unprotected private data that can be misused.

“In India, we have a lot of data floating around in the dark Web. Reasons being that we don’t have any privacy laws and organisations themselves are not stringent, having pretty loose personal data protection policies,” says Rajpreet Kaur, senior research analyst, Gartner.

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