COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF DATA PROTECTION AND PRIVACY LAWS

Abstract

The advent of digital technology has made privacy central to regulatory debates, especially whether or not it should be safeguarded as a fundamental human right. Personal data, as such, has changed into digital formats, with new forms of infrastructure for surveillance, how information or data is shared through cross-borders and technology strictly targeted at analysing data. Personal data needs to be protected because it provides the basis or rationale for advancing politics and ideologies. This implies that privacy is getting a new definition, not only protectionist rights, but equally prioritising “freedom, dignity and autonomy” from authority’s arbitrary interference. The digital age has seen privacy taking a whole new meaning, especially how it shapes the interactions between individuals and corporations or states as the world continued to become extensively globalised ^[1]. Governments and private corporations collect large amounts of data, making it crucial to protect the same from intrusive practices.