India, Jan. 28 -- Data Privacy Day 2026 feels different from years past. Privacy is no longer just about policies and compliance audits. It has become a real-world test of how well organizations protect, understand, and recover their data in an era of quiet breaches and automated attacks.

Today's intrusions rarely come through the front door. They slip in through exposed application programming interfaces (APIs), compromised identities, manipulated datasets, and backups that are quietly tampered with long before anyone notices. Ransomware groups now steal clean data before locking systems, while ungoverned Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools process sensitive information outside security controls. Even deepfake-driven social engineering i...