Privacy · India — extraterritorial for offering goods/services to data principals in India

DPDP Act, 2023

India's first omnibus personal data protection law — phased rollout underway, with sectoral overlays from RBI, SEBI, and CERT-In.

Regulator
Data Protection Board of India
Jurisdiction
India — extraterritorial for offering goods/services to data principals in India
Status
Enacted August 2023; rules notification underway in 2025.
In force since
Phased — rules expected in 2025.
Regulator's source
Who it applies to

Any data fiduciary processing digital personal data of data principals in India.

Penalties

Up to ₹250 crore per breach event (Schedule penalties); compounded for repeated violations.

What it requires

What DPDP actually requires.

These are the obligations a regulated entity owes — the things an assessor or supervisor will ask about.

01

Consent or legitimate use as the lawful basis (notice-and-consent model).

02

Rights of data principals: access, correction, erasure, grievance redressal, nomination.

03

Significant Data Fiduciary obligations including DPIA, data audit, and DPO appointment.

04

Notification of personal data breaches to the Board and affected data principals.

05

Cross-border transfers to all countries except those notified as restricted.

How Safeguard maps to it

Pre-mapped controls. Continuous evidence.

Each requirement above is bound to live telemetry — not screenshots. The mapping below is what your auditor or regulator sees.

Consent management system with versioning and withdrawal handling.

Data principal request workflow with statutory timelines.

Significant Data Fiduciary toolkit — DPIA, data audit, DPO registry.

Breach notification timer with Board-format export.

Restricted-country transfer gates that block non-compliant flows.

Evidence we produce

Artifacts your auditor accepts.

Each evidence artifact is signed and timestamped. Auditors can verify integrity without trusting Safeguard.

Consent ledger with audit trail.

Data principal request register.

DPIA library for high-risk processing.

Breach register with Board notifications.

Ready for DPDP?

Bring the framework. We'll walk the controls with you — section by section, evidence packet by evidence packet, with the regulators you actually have to answer to.

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