Samriddhi Sanga [i] Introduction The EU’s GDPR inspired - ICCA-IBA Roadmap on Data Protection in International Arbitration, arrived in 2020 as a much-needed framework against the backdrop of the shift to virtual hearings across arbitral jurisdictions. The Task Force Co-Chairs Kathleen Paisley and Melanie van Leeuwen remarked that arbitral participants need data protection laws directly governing arbitral proceedings. Besides, burgeoning volumes of personal information in virt