News & Media 9th Feb 2026
Our Partner, Sujjain Talwar shares his insight in The Economic Times, “New Data Act puts Hotel Companies in a Spot of Brother.”
He highlighted that Several existing contracts, some stretching decades, were signed long before data privacy emerged as a regulatory priority and contain little guidance on who controls guest data or bears responsibility for breaches. These are typically 20- to 30-year management agreements that never contemplated privacy law. Owners are waking up to the fact that they could be on the hook for violations they have no control over.
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