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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
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 →Every Indian board I've sat across from in the last year has tried to solve the DPDP staffing question with a sentence: 'the General Counsel will handle it.' That sentence is going to age very badly. Here's the case for hiring an actual DPO, in language a board can act on.
Read post →Enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act has not started in earnest yet. When it does, three things will be true that almost nobody is preparing for. Here's the realistic playbook of how the next 24 months unfold — and what that means for your organisation.
Read post →The fear I hear most often from Indian executives is that DPDP is going to be one more line item on the compliance budget — something to tick off, audit through, and forget. That fear is reasonable, but it's also a choice. Here's the case for why the Indian organisations that treat DPDPA as a cultural shift will outperform the ones that treat it as a checkbox, and what that shift actually looks like in practice.
Read post →For journalists & analysts
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