Paper Is Not An Escape Hatch
The Act covers digital personal data, and paper that is digitised later
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Summary
The form you filled on paper is outside this Act.
The Act covers digital personal data, and paper that is digitised later
Full transcript
The form you filled on paper is outside this Act.
It covers digital personal data.
Collected in digital form.
Or on paper, and digitised later.
Pause. They scan your paper form. Now what?
Now it is covered.
The scan is the moment it comes in.
So paper is not an escape hatch.
Not once they digitise it.
Anything they type up is in.
s.3(a), read with s.2(n) — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
The definition is already in force · ⏳ the duty itself: In force from 13 May 2027