Natural Language Processing — Tech Evolutions

Entry	Year	Description	Impact
Not directly applicable to NLP as a technology	N/A	Natural Language Processing, as a technology, is not directly subject to constitutional amendments. However, amendments to existing laws, particularly those related to information technology, data protection, and digital governance, significantly impact its regulatory landscape and ethical deployment.	Amendments to the Information Technology Act, 2000, and the proposed Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, for instance, directly influence how NLP systems can collect, process, and store personal linguistic data. These legal changes shape the boundaries for data privacy, consent, and accountability in AI applications, thereby indirectly governing the development and use of NLP in India.