Digital Privacy and Personal Data Protection: A Contemporary Maqasid Perspective on Informational Dignity

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Published: 2026-10-31 Pages: 179–198 DOI: 10.66277/cfs.v1i2.416
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Digital privacy represents a contemporary issue within Islamic jurisprudence, necessitating renewed legal reasoning grounded in the objectives of Sharia. This study examines the relationship between digital privacy under Indonesian Law No. 27 of 2022 on Personal Data Protection (UU PDP) and the Islamic legal principle of ḥifẓ al-‘irḍ, traditionally associated with the protection of honor and reputation. Employing a qualitative juridical approach, the study utilizes comparative doctrinal and conceptual analysis within a maqasid-based framework. A structured comparative analysis is applied to identify convergences and divergences between the two frameworks regarding consent, restrictions on information access and use, accountability, harm prevention, normative authority, and enforcement. The findings reveal substantial functional convergence in their protective objectives, particularly regarding consent, limitations on information access, custodial responsibility, and harm prevention, while demonstrating differences in their normative foundations and enforcement mechanisms. Building on this comparison, the study proposes “informational dignity” as a contemporary interpretive category developed through a maqasid-based reconstruction of ḥifẓ al-‘irḍ. This category extends the protection of human honor to digital contexts. The study contends that this reconstruction offers an Islamic normative foundation for addressing emerging challenges in digital privacy, including algorithmic profiling and AI-driven data inference.

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digital privacy personal data protection maqasid sharia informational dignity Islamic jurisprudence

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Copyright Holder: Bagas Lukito, Sutrisno Hadi, Ikhwan Fikri

Copyright Year: 2026

License: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Digital Privacy and Personal Data Protection: A Contemporary Maqasid Perspective on Informational Dignity. (2026). Contemporary Fiqh Studies, 1(2), 179–198. https://doi.org/10.66277/cfs.v1i2.416