Navigating The Digital Data Age: Legal Challenges And Opportunities For The India’s Migrating Seniors Population

Abstract

To achieve a ‘Free and Fair Digital Economy’ under ‘Digital Initiative’ undertaken by Government of India, which focuses to achieve a sensitive balance between right to privacy of citizens, individual, corporate, governmental information against data infringement, graver cybercrimes. Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is an important limb in overarching cyber security framework, along with informational technology act, 2008 and government’s infrastructure for regulating cyber breaches. The historical analysis of the act will present a critical scrutiny of challenges faced by all the stakeholders, while managing, processing big and mega data sets. The model of India’s previous bill in comparison to new modified Act, shall either anchor India’s integrity at the centre of data governance at international level or opens it to greater risks, undermining its aim. The black letter doctrinal analysis shall identify potential implications of this "good law”, highlighting United Nations organs, Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation’s international principles, cyber conventions, jurisprudence, theories and case laws used as founding stone in bringing forth this Acts. The introduction of Artificial Intelligence, digital tools such as data analytics, cognitive computering focuses to achieve a sensitive balance between bouquet of right within cyber space for seniors against infringement of data for cybercrimes aimed to harm the integrity of India. Considering emerging trends, societal shifts, technological advancements, potential policy decision undertaken by Government of India, that will steer the trajectory of Indian health care system to understand the import of cyber victimization, digital isolation and exclusion due to lack of skills, unsafe cyber activities and in an important juncture where global sharing of big data and governance of data via various countries, specifically accepting Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, founding stone in bringing forth Act of 2023, is at par with India’s socio legal and highest court’s consensus amid rising cases of cyber attacks be prevented. The academia shall benefit by this paper to understand the actual import of handling Senior’s interest and big data, to fostering safe cyberspace practices, prevention of data theft, this paper endeavors to offer an in-depth assessment and suggestions regarding the influential factors that could potentially shape the landscape of cyber space with data regulation and uploading the rights of senior’s in India in the near future.