Privacy and Data Protection in Cyberspace in Indian Environment

This paper deals with the privacy issue in Indian perspective with respect to challenges in three different dimensions like Legal, Technical and Political domain. We have proposed framework to deal with these challenges. Advancement in technology such as Mobility (Geographic Knowledge Discovery), Data Mining, Cloud computing etc. brings unforeseen challenges and one of the major challenges is threat to “privacy”. Today we can access any information related to anyone from anywhere at any time but this arise a new threat to private and confidential information. Globalization has given acceptance of technology in the whole world, as per growing requirement different countries has introduced different legal framework like DPA (Data Protection Act)1998 UK, ECPA(Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986) USA etc. from time to time , but in India there is no such comprehensive legal framework that deals with privacy issue. To handle major cyber challenges we refer ITA Act 2008 that was built with the motivation to facilitate e-commerce and hence the privacy was not prior concern in IT act. This suggestive framework provides comprehensive solution as per present and future requirements of privacy in Indian scenario. As rightly said “true power of any law lies on its ability and ease of enforcement”.