*Legal issues galore around digital economy* THE digital economy, with its ability to transact sans borders, continues to create ripples far removed from Silicon Valley. Indian Courts are inundated with matters around digitalization, be it data privacy, intermediary liability, intellectual property issues, and so on. A similar story appears to be playing out in other legal systems as well. With the pie getting bigger due to the shifting of the brick-and-mortar economy towards the virtual economy, policy makers, including tax administrators, are working towards better regulating the digital landscape. The nine-judge Constitutional Bench judgment of the Supreme Court of India in its landmark judgment in the case of Justice K. S. Puttuswamy (Retd.) and Anr. vs Union Of India And Ors. (AIR 2017 SC 4161) had held that informational privacy is a facet of the right to privacy. Dangers to privacy in the age of information, as per the apex court, can originate not only from the State but also from non-State actors. It was also held that privacy is not an absolute right, and that the right is subject to reasonable restrictions. The Court had also emphasised on the need for India to have a data protection law.
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