https://indiadatalaw.org/news/ One dated entry a week on what changed under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025. en-IN Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0530 https://indiadatalaw.org/news/ https://indiadatalaw.org/news/#2026-08-12-the-government-confirmed-both-compliance Tue, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0530 The Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology answered a written question in the Lok Sabha on 12 August 2026. The answer states that consent manager registration falls due by November 2026. It states that full compliance falls due by May 2027. Both dates now sit on the parliamentary record, which makes them citable in a way that press commentary is not. https://indiadatalaw.org/news/ https://indiadatalaw.org/news/#2026-08-12-common-service-centre-operators-may-not Tue, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0530 The same parliamentary answer states that Village Level Entrepreneurs at Common Service Centres are not authorised to collect or store citizen data. The answer does not say whether they are Data Fiduciaries. India has more than 5.8 lakh Common Service Centres. The operators are not authorised to collect or store Aadhaar records, banking records or health records. On the section 2(i) test, an operator who decides nothing about the purpose or the means is not a Data Fiduciary. The obligations then sit with the government department whose service the centre delivers. That is a reading of the Act and not a statement by the Government. This is the first official statement about who handles data at a Common Service Centre. https://indiadatalaw.org/news/ https://indiadatalaw.org/news/#2026-08-07-the-supreme-court-gave-the-union-governm Tue, 07 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0530 The Supreme Court heard the challenges to the Act and the Rules on 7 August 2026. It gave the Union Government two weeks to file its reply. The Court referred the matter to a larger bench on 16 February 2026, on which date it also refused an interim stay. It has not announced the size of the larger bench. Section 44(3) substitutes section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005 and came into force in November 2025. The Court did not stay the provision, so the amendment stays in force while the reference is heard. https://indiadatalaw.org/news/ https://indiadatalaw.org/news/#2026-08-01-the-data-protection-board-still-has-no-c Tue, 01 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0530 The recruitment advertisement was published in Employment News on 6 June 2026 for a chairperson and four members. No appointment has been announced since. The Madhya Pradesh High Court at Indore directed a petitioner to file a representation before the Board in Parth Sharma v. Union of India. The Board cannot receive a complaint or pass an order until the Government appoints members.