The government on Friday has released the much awaited rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, which is the country’s first exclusive law for effectively processing individuals’ personal data and operationalise them.

The DPDP Act was passed by Parliament in August 2023. The final rules published by the Gazette has no major changes from the draft rules released for consultation in January this year. According to S Krishnan, Secretary, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), said that the rules are ‘not very substantive’ and are mostly have greater clarity or better drafting.

Some parts of the rules will be implemented immediately, while provisions like registration and obligations of consent managers, notice from data fiduciaries to individuals for p

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