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India Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and Rules, 2025: cited answers and gap reviews

An AI compliance assistant for companies processing Indians' personal data · updated 2026-10-03

India's DPDP Act and the DPDP Rules, 2025 set out how Data Fiduciaries collect, use and protect personal data. Compliance Colleague covers notice and consent, Data Principal rights, children's data, Significant Data Fiduciaries and breach intimation, section by section.

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What it covers

Notice and consent (section 6) and legitimate uses (section 7)
Children's data (section 9) and Significant Data Fiduciaries (section 10)
Cross-border transfers (section 16)
Breach intimation under Rule 7
The Data Protection Board and the commencement timeline

Questions you can ask

“Does the DPDP Act apply to a foreign SaaS company with Indian users?”
“What must a DPDP consent notice contain?”
“What do we have to tell the Board after a breach, and when?”

Every answer cites the India DPDPA requirement, article or control it rests on, so you can check it in seconds.

What you can upload for review

Your privacy notice checked against section 5 and the Rules
A consent flow screenshot checked for valid consent
A breach response procedure checked against Rule 7

Files: PDF, Word, Excel or CSV, Visio (.vsdx), draw.io, or an image such as a screenshot. Choose a full review, a prioritized fix list (each gap with its fix and the evidence an assessor will expect) or a short summary, and download the result as Word or PDF.

Crosswalk India DPDPA to other standards

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Upcoming India DPDPA dates

November 13, 2026

India DPDP: Consent Manager provisions commence

Source: DPDP Rules, 2025, Rule 1 and Rule 4; DPDP Act, 2023 ss. 6(9), 27(1)(d)

May 13, 2027

India DPDP: full compliance deadline

Source: DPDP Rules, 2025, Rule 1 (18 months from notification)

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Example answers

Does India's DPDP Act apply to a US SaaS company with no Indian entity, and to paper records?

What it’s built from

Compliance Colleague carries the official text and checks its answers against it: Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (No. 22 of 2023) (Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of India (copy hosted by MeitY)); Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (G.S.R. 846(E)), with Corrigendum G.S.R. 892(E) (Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India).

Re-checked every month for new versions, deadlines and penalty changes. Full list on the sources page.

Compliance Colleague covers 30+ security, privacy and AI governance standards. It reviews policies, spreadsheets and diagrams and answers questions with the clause cited; your judgment and sign-off stay with you. Try it free, no card required →

Research aid, not legal or audit advice, and not an audit opinion or certification. Verify findings against the official text before relying on them.