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Glossary · DPDP Act 2023 · s. 2(n)

Digital personal data

Definition

DPDP Act 2023 · s. 2(n)

Personal data in digital form. The Act applies to personal data collected digitally, and to personal data collected on paper and digitised later (s. 3(a)). Paper records that are never digitised fall outside it, as does data you process for a personal or domestic purpose and data a Data Principal has made publicly available themselves (s. 3(c)).

"digital personal data" means personal data in digital form.

In other laws

LawTermNote
GDPR (EU)Material scope, Art. 2(1)Applies to automated processing and to manual processing that forms part of a filing system; DPDP stops at digital form.

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