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@article{181857,
        author = {K Keerthan Kini and Dr . Chitra B T and Subramanya G M and Jeevan Kumar and Nachiketh Adiga},
        title = {Balancing Privacy and Innovation: Challenges in Global Data Protection Frameworks},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {2},
        pages = {130-140},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=181857},
        abstract = {The rapidly increasing integration of digital tech- nologies and online platforms into daily life has propelled personal data protection as one of the most prominent global legal and policy issues. The paper examines the structural, normative and operational components of current data protection regimes applying doctrinal legal analysis rationale and policy analysis framework and aims to examine how legal instruments tackle consent, rights-holder rights, possibilities for enforcement and regulatory independence. Using emerging and established legal regimes (for instance, European Union, United States, China, India and Nigeria), the research explores the political conditions in which data regulation exists as well as the complexities around effectively protecting individual user data. The study identifies significant tensions between privacy and innovation, national security and personal autonomy, and formal rights and enforceability. As a result, it identifies legal ambiguity, ethical vulnerability, and institutional deficiencies around the effectiveness and legitimacy of contemporary approaches to data governance. The research examines regulatory design, and im- plementation strategies employing cross-jurisdictions to develop coherent, flexible and rights-based systems of data protection. The results highlight the necessity for global accountabilities that consider domestic legal diversity while holding every actor accountable to robust but flexible, ethical, and rights-based principles that (among other things) prioritize the power of personal accountability and choice for users of digital realities.},
        keywords = {Data protection, GDPR, DPDP Act, privacy law, consent, regulatory compliance, digital governance, cybersecurity},
        month = {June},
        }