Data Protection Act in India with Compared To the European Union Countries

Abstract—The paper discusses about the cyber law system prevalent in India and also suggests that more robust and efficient law system should be introduced. It briefly shows that there is not much public awareness and seriousness regarding the Data Protection. Though India is regarded as a big host for the outsourcing and data processing but still the employees and people working for these companies and call centres are not aware about the cyber law as the cyber law is not much flourished and propagated in India as it is in the European countries. The European countries have developed a good and robust data protection act which easily convicts the guilty and hence the people are more aware and cautious while getting into dark side to the computer world. The paper also shows in the few laws that are been really implemented in India