Why DPDP compliance is now a CIO problem, not just a legal one
By Chintan Shah, Founder, DPDPGuard.ai
Here’s the point worth leading with: DPDP compliance is not, at its core, a legal deliverable it’s an engineering one. Legal counsel can interpret the law, but only technology systems can actually deliver on it the databases that store personal data, the pipelines that move it, and the access controls that decide who can touch it. That’s what makes this a CIO problem first, and a legal one second.
India’s Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 laid down the country’s first comprehensive framework for how personal data is collected, processed, and protected. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology notified the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 through a gazette notification dated November 13, 2025, while the Data Protection Board of India (DPBI) has been formally established as the regulatory body responsible for implementing and enforcing the framework.
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