"The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, backed by the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 notified by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on 13 November 2025, marks a decisive shift in how personal data must be treated in India. As the country heads into 2026, businesses are entering the most critical phase: execution. Companies now have an 18-month window to re-engineer systems, processes, and accountability frameworks across IT, legal, HR, marketing, and vendor ecosystems. The change is not cosmetic."
"Privacy Will Movefromthe Back Office to the Boardroom Until now, data protection in Indian organizations largely sat with compliance teams or IT security. That model will not hold in 2026. The DPDP framework makes senior leadership directly accountable for how personal data is handled, especially in cases of breaches or systemic non-compliance. Privacy risk will increasingly be treated like financial or operational risk."
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, establish new legal requirements for personal data handling in India. Businesses face an 18-month implementation window to redesign systems, processes, and accountability across IT, legal, HR, marketing, and vendor relationships. Senior leadership becomes directly accountable for data handling, breach response, and systemic compliance failures. Privacy risk will be treated alongside financial and operational risks. The framework mandates structural changes rather than cosmetic fixes and will reshape interactions between companies, consumers, and the digital economy in 2026.
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