India's DPDP rules: Govt in talks with industry to slash compliance time

Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Centre is consulting industry to cut the 18-month window for implementing new data protection requirements

The government is in talks with industry and other stakeholders to reduce the timeline for compliance with regard to the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act and Rules from the current 18 months, Union Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Monday.

 

“The first set of rules that we have published gives a very reasonable timeframe depending upon what the industry’s ask was and what our thrust was. We are also in touch with the industry to further compress the timelines,” Vaishnaw said.

 

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (Meity), he said, had informed the industry and