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@article{171628,
        author = {Prof. Dr. Md Akbar Khan},
        title = {DATA PRIVACY – A REALITY THAT CAN NOT BE UNDERMINED BY THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {11},
        number = {8},
        pages = {750-760},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=171628},
        abstract = {Data processing may include raw data input and conversion to the machine in understandable format, flow of data through the Central Processing Unit and memory to output devices, and formatting or transformation of the resultant output. Data processing could best be described as the utilization of computer technology in order to perform certain tasks on data. Depending on the context and when applied to personal data, “processing” is always a specific operation or a set of operations performed on the data. Such activities include collecting, logging, categorizing, archiving, varying, accessing, utilizing, synchronizing, or integrating data, cataloguing, sharing using transmission, providing access to an individual or making data available to him or her, controlling access, deleting, or obliterating.
The said judgment was passed on 24 august 2017 by Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. It, without any doubt, held the existence of a right to privacy as an inalienable right to all individuals as protected by the Constitution of India under Article 21. The judgments delivered in case of M. P. Sharma and Kharak Singh were reversed. The said decision enabled the consciousness among the citizens to wake up from slumber to the fact that their privacy might be at risk of being breached during the processing of data of an individual and this decision therefore prepared and challenged the researcher to look for any gaps regarding privacy and protection of data in higher education institutions.
It was nearly six years that the Indian Government took in formulating the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and was enacted on the 11th of August, 2023. Before the period of legislation of this law, 21666 suggestions were provided. Now the institutions are in a much better position to protect the data but the odd of escaping has doubled up for them. Data processing has now turned into credibly a work of responsibility and accountability. It has now become imperative for preparation towards protecting and securing the data. The University now cannot afford to take any chances with the data of the students and the staff and would be assuming the role of a data fiduciary and the data processor. As such, it can be posited that data privacy has become a real thing that cannot be dismissed.},
        keywords = {Data Processing, Personal Data, Erasure, Breach of Privacy Protection of Data, Data Fiduciary, Data Processor.},
        month = {January},
        }