How a statement gets onto this site

Last revised August 2026

This page explains where the statements on this site come from and how they are checked.

The sourcing rule

A statement of law is taken from the Act or the Rules. A statement about what the Government has said is taken from a parliamentary answer, a Gazette notification or a release from the Press Information Bureau. A statement about a case is taken from the order, or from a report by a legal publication of record.

Where the primary document is not published online in a stable place, the site says so and names the report it has used instead. It does not present a report as though it were the document.

This site never uses content marketing published by a compliance vendor as a source. This site never uses Wikipedia as a source. The Wikipedia article on the Data Protection Board of India currently names a chairperson that no government document supports, which is a working example of why.

What the verification date means

Every page carries a month at the top. That is when the page was last checked against the primary documents. It is not the date the page was written and it is not the date the law changed. Pages are checked monthly, and sooner when an event affects them.

What would change this

Most pages end with a block naming the specific events that would make the page wrong, such as a notification, an appointment, a judgment or a registration. A reader can check the page against those events.

How uncertainty is handled

Where sources disagree, the site says so and shows both readings. The commencement date is the standing example. Both notifications carry the date 13 November 2025 and several sources record publication in the Gazette on 14 November 2025. The twelve and eighteen month periods run from publication, so the site uses the earlier date, states the doubt on every page where a day could matter, and does not assert a deadline to the day.

Where the Government has decided nothing, this site says so and makes no prediction.

What the site does with a reader's data

Nothing. This site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics tag that identifies a reader. It embeds no fonts, scripts, images or videos from a third party, so no reader's browser is made to contact another company. It collects no email addresses and sends no email.

Corrections

If you spot an error, write to editor@indiadatalaw.org. The page is corrected and shows what changed.