Data protection primarily addresses the handling of personal data, which involves unique and distinctive hazards. Personal information may expose a person's identity, relationships, health history, financial information, sexual preferences, and religious convictions. Therefore, processing it might seriously jeopardize someone's right to privacy. The main focus of the current study is to throw light on the need for data privacy, study the threats regarding data privacy and to study the different regulations made for data privacy. The present study is based on the secondary sources of information. Required information has been gathered from different journals, books and internet sources.