The increasing amount of data generated by devices we interact with requires the data to be protected more zealously. The Personal
Data Protection Bill, 2019 seeks to bring in a data protection regime to curb and prevent misuse of personal data. In this respect, it is
pertinent to examine a class of data which has been unregulated or escapes the regulation – metadata. Metadata is data about data. It
is a structured information which describes the source of information.