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AutoCops opens up its renewed public marketing site at autocops.org with the full DPDP Act 2023 compliance platform. New renewed site includes a free assessment, glossary, services catalogue, and a complete trust center.
The DPDP Rules 2025 were notified earlier this year. AutoCops customers received hot-patched updates within ten days, including the new breach notification timing, the children's verifiable consent flow, and the updated grievance redressal SLA window.
Our practitioner publication argues for a 'builder, not punisher' posture in the Board's first three years, with comparative analysis from RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, CNIL and the Irish DPC.
An honest read on the four structural gaps in the existing Indian compliance ecosystem and what to do about each — cross-functional ownership, event-driven reporting, evidence traceability, and sectoral overlay coordination.
From the blog
Section 8(6) of the DPDP Act requires notification to the Board within 72 hours of a personal-data breach. Almost nobody has built an operation that can defensibly hit that clock. Here's what 72 hours actually means in minutes, what the notification has to contain, and where the seven-most-likely-to-fail handoffs are.
Read post →A common refrain in Indian boardrooms is that the DPDP Act will be 'enforceable only on paper' — that the Data Protection Board won't actually have the teeth to pursue real cases. This is a comforting belief. It is also wrong, and the reasons it's wrong are worth understanding before the first major penalty lands.
Read post →Talk to ten Indian organisations about DPDP readiness and you'll get ten optimistic answers. Look at their operations and you'll find five common gaps that take months to close — not weeks. Here's the honest preparedness scorecard, by sector, and the order in which the gaps are best closed.
Read post →The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is not a problem for someone else's department. If your business touches Indian customer data — and almost every business does — the Act has already changed your job description, whether you've noticed or not.
Read post →Every founder, every counsel, every product manager I talk to asks the same first question — and most of the answers floating around the internet are wrong. Here's the practitioner's version, with the actual section numbers, in plain English.
Read post →The job of a DPO is 90% preparation for moments that may never come and 10% terrified scrambling through moments that arrived without warning. Here are six scenarios I rehearse with every new DPO I onboard — and why each one ends in a different kind of bad day.
Read post →For journalists & analysts
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