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In August 2023, India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act (Act) received presidential assent, formalizing its first ever comprehensive and union-wide data protection law. The Act differs in many respects from a preceding version that was withdrawn in 2022, and reflects intensive discussion and revisions since then. In its final form, the Act reflects the central government’s concerns to preserve and enhance a pro-business and pro-innovation environment for the country.

With a population in excess of 1.4 billion, healthcare and associated sectors such as life sciences and insurance are key elements both of India’s economy and of the central government’s social policy agenda. Although historically dominated by the private sector, India’s healthcare industry has seen increasing cooperation and synergies between and among government and private entities, including public private partnership (PPP) arrangements, the Ayushman Bharat National Health Protection Mission, which was

However, sensitive healthcare and insurance data is an attractive target for cyberattacks including ransomware and denial of service. The Indian healthcare industry faced more than 1.9 million cyberattacks in 2022, including a November 2022 attack on the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) New Delhi, forcing it to shut down many of its servers and switch to manual operations. The key challenge, therefore, is to ensure that innovation does not come with a dilution of data protection.

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