India: Privacy Protection

India's digital governance landscape is undergoing significant transformation through proposed amendments to intermediary rules, enhanced telecommunications compliance frameworks, and stricter fintech data protection standards. Recent regulatory actions by MeitY, TRAI, and RBI signal a coordinated effort to strengthen platform accountability, combat unsolicited commercial communications, and safeguard consumer data across the financial sector.

Data has emerged as a new core asset with the enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 (operationalizing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023) and this has impacted India’s Corporate landscape as well.

India's digital economy, valued at over $250 billion and projected to reach $1 trillion by 2030, hinges on robust data governance to sustain trust and innovation. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, and its Rules notified on January 3, 2025, mark a foundational shift toward consent-driven data processing, minimization, and individual rights

Few sectors process personal data as continuously, invisibly and unavoidably as telecom operators and OTT platforms making them among the most susceptible to data privacy risks.

The Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules, 2026 ("2026 Amendment Rules") mark a significant regulatory shift in India's digital governance framework.

India's logistics sector runs on precision, speed and visibility. From fleet optimisation systems to warehouse access controls and last-mile delivery apps, operational efficiency increasingly depends on granular, real-time data.

A year ago, one of the big calls was that AI in legal would move from the lab to the desk. That's happened.

India's banking, financial services and insurance ("BFSI") sector particularly digital lending platforms, NBFCs, fintech intermediaries, payment aggregators and neo-banks...

It is estimated that India is home to more than 1,800 Global Capability Centres ("GCCs") that employ over 1.8 million professionals.