Supreme Court to examine impact of data protection law on RTI, investigative journalism

The court said both the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the RTI Act were central legislations with a need to harmonise them; it would examine if this restrictive or ‘cautionary approach’ to sharing data under the DPDP Act worked to repeal earlier transparency legislations The court said both the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023 and the RTI Act were central legislations with a need to harmonise them; it would examine if this restrictive or ‘cautionary approach’ to sharing data under the DPDP Act worked to repeal earlier transparency legislations