Chapter 123: What Privacy? What Journalism? Press Freedom in the Age of DPDP

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The United Nations General Assembly declared May 3 to be World Press Freedom Day, a reminder to governments of the need to respect their commitment to press freedom. In this chapter, we use insights from the discussion we had in a session at WSA Congress 2025 in Hyderabad, by Nikhil Dey of MKSS and Sangeeta Barooah of Press Club of India on the intersection of the new Data Protection Bill and what it means for journalism and media in general.