TABLE OF CONTENTS SUPERVISOR'S CERTIFICATE; DECLARATION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT; GLOSSARY OF TERMS; LIST OF STATUTES; CHAPTER 1: A FREE AND FAIR DIGITAL ECONOMY; • Existing Approaches to Data Protection; • Understanding the Contours of the Indian Approach; • Data Principals and Data Fiduciaries; • Following Puttaswamy; • Research methodology; • Statement of problem; • Aims and objectives; • Hypothesis; • Research questions; • Methodology; • Chapterisation; • Mode of citation; CHAPTER 2: JURISDICTION AND APPLICABILITY; • Jurisdiction; • Conceptual Understanding of Jurisdiction; • Prescriptive Jurisdiction; • The Case for Data Non-Exceptionalism; • Putative Bases for Jurisdiction; • Retrospective and Transitional Application of the Data Protection Law; CHAPTER 3: PROCESSING; • Building Blocks of the Law; • Personal Data; • Sensitive Personal Data; • Consent; • A revised operational framework for consent; • Consequences of such a Framework; • Enforcement of the Revised Framework; • Standard of Consent; • Different Standards for Different Types of Personal Data Processing; • Consent Dashboard and Avoiding Consent Fatigue; • Consent and Contractual Necessity; • Protection of Children's Personal Data; • Identification of guardian data fiduciaries; • Who is a child?; • Barred Practices; • Regulatory Approach; • Community Data; • Entities to which the Law Applies; CHAPTER 4: OBLIGATIONS OF DATA FIDUCIARIES; • Fair and Reasonable Processing; • Purpose Limitation and Data Minimisation; • Big Data Challenges to Data Minimisation and Purpose Limitation; • Transparency; • Organisational Obligations on Data Fiduciaries.