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Kalindhi Bhatia and Hiba Abbas As stakeholders across industries have been awaiting the practical implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“ DPDPA ”), the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (“ DPDP Rules ”) have finally been released on November 14, 2025. These Rules, intended to operationalise the DPDPA, provide much-needed clarity on how provisions of the Act are expected to practically function. You can access the finalized version of the

Vikram Jeet Singh and Kalindhi Bhatia More than two (2) years since the notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (“ DPDPA ”, “ Act ”), the Act has now been implemented by way of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules (“ Rules ”) notified on November 13, 2025. This comes as welcome relief and clarity to Indian businesses who have been seeking to align their data practices. The Rules mark an end to India’s long journey of developing a standalone privac

Vikram Jeet Singh, Prashant Mara and Arushi Mukherji ‘Verifiable Parental Consent India’s new data privacy law, the Digital Personal Data...

(Vikram Jeet Singh & Rhea Sethi)   After a year and a half of anticipation, the much-awaited draft of the Digital Personal Data...

(Vikram Jeet Singh & Arushi Mukherji)   MeitY notified the Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 on January 3, 2025 (“...

Vikram Jeet Singh & Prashant Daga Since their release on January 3, 2025, BTG Advaya’s TMC Team has been looking into the...

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 ( Draft Data Privacy Rules ), intended to implement India’s new privacy law, were...

Vikram Jeet Singh & Prashant Daga This is a brief update on the data access framework in India. The Indian Government has fairly wide...

In August this year, India replaced its decade-old set of data security rules with a new Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023...

Vikram Jeet Singh and Ayan Sharma BTG Legal recently held a brainstorming session with various general counsels. The participants raised...

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(Ayan Sharma & Prashant Daga) In early August this year India’s decade-long journey towards a data privacy and protection regime came to...

Vikram Jeet Singh and Arushi Mukherji The Digital Personal Data Protection (“DPDP”, or the “Act”) Bill, 2023 emerged after the Indian...

India’s decade-long journey towards a data protection law finally has reached its (almost) final step. The Lok Sabha on August 7, 2023,...

The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (“DPDP Bill”) was released for public consultation on November 18, 2022. Post...