Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws | Advises on GDPR, UK GDPR, and cross-border data transfer compliance Quick answer The GDPR restricts moving personal data out of the EEA unless the destination has specific legal cover. Standard Contractual Clauses, […]
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Written by: Prakhar Rai, Founder, My Legal Pal | Bar Council of India | LL.B, NLSIU Bangalore | Master of Business Laws | Advises on DPDP, GDPR, and CCPA compliance for businesses operating in and outside India Quick answer Data mapping is the exercise of finding out, in specific and current terms, what personal data […]
TL;DR: A breach doesn’t wait for you to figure out who to call. If your business handles sensitive data across multiple countries, a single incident can trigger CERT-In’s 6-hour window, GDPR’s 72-hour window, and separate obligations under the US, Australia, and India’s DPDP Act simultaneously, on independent clocks that don’t wait for each other. Most […]
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Here is something most founders discover too late: data protection law does not follow your company. It follows your users. You might be incorporated in India, operating from Dubai, with your servers on AWS in Singapore. But the moment a user in Germany signs up for your product, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation applies […]
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TL;DR: Data protection laws govern how organisations collect, use, store, and share personal data, and they now exist almost everywhere. As of 2026, more than 170 countries have enacted data protection legislation, covering around 79% of the world’s population. The EU’s GDPR remains the global benchmark, and most newer laws, including India’s DPDP Act, Brazil’s […]