During the pandemic, the use of online platforms has increased significantly across the world which requires uploading of personal information in the cyber world from where, if something is once uploaded, deletion becomes just a myth. Similarly, in India also during the lockdown use of the internet has increased at a massive scale which has made the personal data of most of the citizens in India available on the Internet. As such question arises regarding the protection and security of such personal data from their mis-utilizations. This is the reason why studying the legal framework regulating this issue becomes important. This short article to understand the legal framework on Data privacy has attempted to analyze very briefly the laws existing in the UK, USA, and India whereby it can be concluded that India is lagging by a huge margin on the issue of data protection compared to the other two countries since India has no specific law enacted till now on that issue.

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