“A neutered or slightly diluted regulator is not [necessarily] a bad thing,” responded the Esya Centre’s Meghna Bal when asked if the functions of India’s apex privacy regulator established under ...

European data protection supervisors warn the European Commission against narrowing the privacy protections for personal data as it gears up for a swathe of data protection reforms.

Cases of non-compliance with the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 (DPDP Bill), and subsequent financial penalties, will be determined by the newly-established Data Protection Board of India ...

The formation of the Data Protection Board (DPB), a pivotal adjudicatory body under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, will be the cornerstone of India’s data governance efforts.

India, as one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing digital markets, has taken a significant step towards bolstering data protection and privacy with the proposed establishment of the Data ...

The government had allocated ₹2 crore to meet the establishment and salary expenses of the Data Protection Board in FY25. In order to operationalise the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, ...

The government will start putting in place rules for compliance in the next few days and most of the rules for the Data Protection Board will be ready in 30 days, Rajeev Chandrasekhar said MSMEs and ...