India DPDPA compliance,meet the DPDP Act and Rules
India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) and the DPDP Rules, 2025 govern digital personal data processed in India — and processing abroad connected with offering goods or services to people in India. Obligations fall on Data Fiduciaries, with heightened duties for Significant Data Fiduciaries and for children's data, enforced by the Data Protection Board of India with penalties of up to INR 250 crore.
What India DPDPA asks of you
The requirements below define India DPDPA. ComplyEasyAI maps your environment to each one.
Scope & roles
Confirm applicability (s.3), classify each activity as Data Fiduciary or Data Processor, and track the factors behind Significant Data Fiduciary designation (s.10).
Notice & consent
Free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent, preceded by a standalone plain-language notice and withdrawable as easily as it was given (ss.5–7).
Data Fiduciary duties
Reasonable security safeguards, accuracy, processor contracts, erasure once the purpose is served and grievance redressal (s.8, Rule 6).
Breach notification
Intimate affected Data Principals without delay and the Data Protection Board within 72 hours of becoming aware of a breach (s.8(6), Rule 7).
Children & Significant Data Fiduciaries
Verifiable parental consent and no tracking or targeted ads at children (s.9); an India-based DPO, independent audits and DPIAs for SDFs (s.10).
Data Principal rights & transfers
Access, correction, erasure, nomination and grievance rights (ss.11–14), and transfers only to territories the government has not restricted (s.16).
From scoping to a clean report
Scope
Define the systems, boundaries and requirements your program will cover.
Connect your stack
Link cloud, identity, code and ticketing with read-only access; controls are discovered and mapped.
Collect evidence
AI agents gather configuration and activity evidence on a schedule, building a versioned trail.
Monitor & remediate
Continuous monitoring flags drift the moment it happens and routes it to an owner.
Track effectiveness
Operating effectiveness is recorded over time, ready for your observation window.
Report & hand off
Organized, current evidence is packaged for auditors and stakeholders.
Automate the work that doesn’t need a human
Control mapping
Your environment is mapped to each requirement, so you see exactly which control satisfies what.
Automated evidence
Read-only integrations build a versioned, timestamped trail instead of manual screenshots.
Continuous monitoring
Drift surfaces as soon as it happens, not during fieldwork.
Readiness dashboards
Real-time views highlight failing or unmapped controls with owners attached.
Multi-framework reuse
Shared controls are mapped once and reused across every framework you run.
Audit-ready reporting
Export organized, current evidence packages on demand.
Map once, reuse across programs
India DPDPA questions, answered
Does the DPDP Act apply to companies outside India?
Yes. It covers processing outside India that is connected with offering goods or services to Data Principals in India (s.3), so businesses serving Indian users are in scope wherever they are based.
How does it differ from GDPR?
Both rest on lawful grounds, notice, individual rights and breach notification, so much of the operational work overlaps. The DPDP Act is consent-centric with a short list of 'certain legitimate uses' (s.7) rather than a legitimate-interest ground, and it bans tracking and targeted advertising directed at children outright.
What is a Significant Data Fiduciary?
A Data Fiduciary the Central Government notifies based on the volume and sensitivity of data processed, risk to Data Principals and similar factors (s.10). SDFs must appoint an India-based Data Protection Officer and an independent data auditor and run a DPIA at least every twelve months.
How do you help?
The platform maps your processing to 44 controls citing the Act's sections and the 2025 Rules, tracks consent records, rights requests and breach timelines, and keeps the evidence continuously current.
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