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The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules will undergo legal vetting before being issued, said S Krishnan, secretary of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), while speaking to NDTV Profit on Friday.

The ministry received over 7,000 independent inputs on the draft DPDP rules, Krishnan noted, adding that all of them were adequately looked into it.

The changes to the final DPDP rules as compared to the draft list are "not very extensive", but the process took time as the inputs had to be "carefully considered".

The MeitY has finished its work related to the same, and the guidelines will be issued following the process of "lega

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