How a statement gets onto this site
Last revised August 2026
This page exists so that a reader can judge the site without knowing who writes it. If the method below is not being followed, the site is not doing its job, and a reader is entitled to say so.
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. Three documents currently fall into that category and each is flagged on the sources page.
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 date at the top. That date is the day a person last checked the page against the primary documents. It is not the date the page was written and it is not the date the law changed. A page checked yesterday and unchanged for a year is more useful than a page rewritten yesterday and never checked.
The author checks trackers every fortnight. The author checks reference pages every month. The author checks a rarely-changing page when an event affects it.
What would change this
Most pages end with a block naming the specific event that would make the page wrong. A notification, an appointment, a judgment, a registration. A reader can then test the page against events. Each block names the event that would make the page wrong.
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.
Restatement, not quotation
The pages on this site restate the law in plain words. They are not the statutory text and they are not a substitute for it. Where the exact words matter, read the section. Every page links to the document.
What the colours mean
This site uses three colours. Green marks a provision that is in force. It marks nothing else anywhere on the site. Everything else is black on white. The status words are also distinguished by weight and by wording, so a reader who cannot separate colours, or who prints the page, reads the same information.
What the site does with a reader's data
A site about data protection should hold itself to the standard it writes about. 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.
The hosting provider counts page views in aggregate. That count does not identify a reader and the site cannot use it to.
Corrections
A correction is made on the page. The page then shows the date of the correction and what was changed. The author never corrects a page silently. Write to editor@indiadatalaw.org.