The Editors Guild of India (EGI) and DigiPub (the representative body of digital media organisations) have issued strong statements slamming the Centre’s recent notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules 2025, warning that they could hinder newsgathering, weaken the Right to Information (RTI) and impose disproportionate burdens on journalists.

In their statement on Wednesday (November 19), the Editors Guild expressed concern that the Rules “continue to leave critical questions unresolved for journalists and media organisations”.

The Guild noted that although the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) had earlier assured press bodies that journalistic work would not fall under the DPDP Act, “there has been no official response since then”.

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