India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and newly released Rules signal one of the most consequential shifts in the country’s digital landscape. It demands a fundamental reshaping of how modern enterprises collect, process, store, and govern personal data across digital, cloud, analytics, and AI ecosystems. Most organizations today run on fragmented architectures: isolated CRM and marketing platforms, ungoverned analytics data marts, multi-copy data lakes, and AI pipelines without privacy guardrails. The Rules mandate purpose limitation, verifiable consent, retention minimization, breach readiness, and demonstrable safeguards across the full lifecycle of personal data. All about ETCISO industry right on your smartphone!

Source: Economic Times December 20, 2025 11:14 UTC