DPDP Act Rs 250 Crore penalty is for not having technical safeguards. For that business should do 3 things:
1. Privacy Governance: Consent, Cookie, Discovery and DPIA
2. Technical Safeguards: Integrate Governance and build technical safeguards so that breach is prevented
3. Deploy, Integrate and Go Live: Enterprises will require time to consume privacy tech, from application to data governance to AI governance
Given penalty kicks in from 14th May 2027, organizations need to be compliant and be ready to take care of Data Principal Rights like Consent, Data Principal Rights and Technical Safeguards.
Depending upon enterprises’ agility even considering aggressive timeline of gap assessment 2 months, UAT and application onboarding 1 month, application integration & discovery 3 months, DPIA for various internal and 3rd party flows 2 months and basic technical safeguards 2 months – requires 10 months for basic compliance, which will lead to May 27. So, enterprises need to act now! Else be ready to pay penalty!”