India, Nov. 15 -- India has taken a decisive step toward enforcing its modern privacy regime, with the Government formally activating the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) through a series of three gazette notifications.

These notifications operationalise the Act by setting out its implementation schedule, constituting the Data Protection Board, and issuing the DPDP Rules 2025 - collectively forming the legal and institutional backbone that will steer the handling of personal data over the next 18 months.

With this move, the country's Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has ushered in a new compliance environment that reshapes how organisations collect, process, and govern personal information,...