For years, the unspoken rule across Indian tech and corporate IT was simple: hoard everything, just in case. Every mobile number collected at a retail checkout counter, every Aadhaar scan sitting unencrypted on an office desktop, every behavioral event tracked…

As India approaches the presentation of Union Budget 2026, the expectations from the finance ministry go far beyond routine tax tweaks or headline-grabbing announcements. The forthcoming Budget is widely seen as a litmus test of the government’s commitment to fiscal…