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The next C.DPO.DA. program will be conducted by FDPPI as a Virtual Program on February 21 and 22, 2025.

The program will be conducted by Naavi and will cover the following topics.

Day 1:

Legal nuances of DPDPA and the DPDPA  Rules
Classification of DPDPA protected Data (DPD)
ROPA as a strategic tool of Compliance
Technical challenges of Management of Legal Basis for processing and Rights of Data  Principal
Digital Omnibus GDPR Amendments
DGPSI-GDPR  introduction

Day 2:

Governance  Structuring for meeting the obligations under DPDPA by a Data Fiduciary
The Roles of DPO and Data Auditor in the DPDPA era
Use of DGPSI as a Compliance Management framework
AI and its challenges in meeting the obligations with DGPSI AI
Comparison of DGPSI with ISO 27701

Fees Rs 29500/- including all taxes . This includes fees for examination (One attempt). Subsequent attempts Rs 5000/- (Subject to changes)

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As India prepares for the DPDPA Era, it has become necessary for organizations to explore the technical tools required to work towards compliance. FDPPI has already unveiled the Compliance frameworks, conducted many awareness sessions and also created many certified professionals.

It is time now to move to the next level of assisting the industry for compliance with assistance to understand and evaluate technical tools necessary for DPDPA Compliance.

It is natural that all existing international software solution providers who are already in the game serving the GDPR community are now eyeing the “Big and Beautiful Indian market” which is “Tariff Free”  and are tweaking their software to meet DPDPA requirements. Some of them are opening Indian subsidiaries to give their software a local touch.

Many Indian start ups are also venturing into the development of software for DPDPA Compliance including the Six shortlisted companies which are into the final round of development of the open source “Consent Management” software in the Coding Challenge.

Many large entities are however not relying on the external software suppliers and are developing their  own in-house software for compliance .

Already many of the professionals in the organizations have started gathering data and taking presentations from the vendors. Those who were already using some international products are experiencing the customization for DPDPA.

We as a community of Data Protection Professionals need to understand where the industry stands as of today, who are the serious players and what are their offers and what is the experience of the early users are. We know that these are early days and experience is sketchy. Many have only the marketing presentations to depend for their understanding. But this is early 2026 and we need to make an  assessment of what do we have today.

FDPPI has therefore launched the country’s first survey of DPDPA Compliance tools as a perception study from the users.

The Indian National Survey of DPDPA Compliance tools is an initiative launched by Naavi and FDPPI as a part of the celebration of the International Privacy Day of 2026.

The survey is now open and over the next one month till end February 2026, will collect the data. It will then be analysed and a report would be prepared.

Kindly access the survey here

Your views will be consolidated and all respondents will get a copy of the final report if they have shared their contact e-mail in the form

The tool manufactures can participate in the survey identifying their role as vendors of solutions. FDPPI would also give a one hour slot to them to present their software in one of the Jnaana Vardhini Sessions to the members of FDPPI  if interested.

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The first Indian National Survey of DPDPA Compliance tools in India is now open. FDPPI would request professionals with relevant information to contribute to this survey.

We are aware that a very few organizations in India have actually started implementation of DPDPA Compliance. Out of them many have implemented their in-house software development capability to meet the requirements. A few would have used the internationally available tools like OneTrust since they were perhaps already using them for GDPR compliance.

It is natural to expect that most of the big players claim that their software is also compatible with DPDPA Compliance.

To have the first hand account from the users of these products, FDPPI has opened this survey.

The Survey should have two benefits

1. All those who complete the survey are entitled to a copy of the report when ready. (Provided they have shared their contact details).
2. Additionally the survey has been so constructed that the completion of the form itself would give a fair idea of the requirements.

It is our endeavour to make the effort and time used worthy.

It is possible that  many are just aware of the products and may have taken demos but do not have a hands on experience. We have added them also in this survey so that the respondent’s base is wide.

Direct link to the survey is here:

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Way back in 2015, Naavi had initiated India’s first survey of Cyber Insurance.  It was a survey to ascertain the status of the industry at that point of time. We presume it was useful to the industry and today the industry has grown by leaps and bounds.

Now is the time for DPDPA Compliance and the entire industry is looking for appropriate tools for implementing Compliance. FDPPI has been doing its bit to assist the industry with its DGPSI Compliance framework. But the industry is eagerly looking forward to technical tools for data discovery, classification, consent Management and other requirements of compliance.

There are many international software products which are also claiming to have already customised for DPDPA. Most of them have substituted the key words such as Data Fiduciary for Data Controller but the skeleton of the engine is still the GDPR. Many Indian companies are trying to adopt DPDPA concepts into the GDPR  framework since changing over to another software is very cumbersome and expensive. Putting the DPDPA into the body created for GDPR is like an orthodox Indian soul getting into a foreigner’s body on reincarnation.

There are many Indian companies who are trying to build indigenous products and some of them (Not all)  have also been part of the MeitY exercise for developing an open source Consent Management Platform.

In this scenario, it is time for the launch of the First Indian National Survey of DPDPA Compliance tools.

FDPPI is therefore launching an open survey in this regard and is preparing to publish  the questionnaire as part of its “International Privacy Day” celebration.

At the same time Naavi is also launching his next book in E Form named “Wisdom Companion for Champions of DPDPA”

This book will be the fourth in the series of books released by Naavi starting with “Guardians of Privacy, a comprehensive  handbook on DPDPA 2023 and DGPSI, DGPSI, the perfect prescription for DPDPA Compliance and Taming the twin challenges of DPDPA And AI”.

These books trace the progressive development of Information and converting them into knowledge and implementation skills. The new book will cover the DPDPA Rules along with the recent additions to DGPSI family namely DGPSI-GDPR, DGPSI-HR and DGPSI-Data Processor.

The Print version may take a little while but the Kindle version will be ready by this week.

There is a rumour that the Government may pre-pone the implementation of DPDPA from 13th May 2027 to 13th may 2026. Whether it materializes or not, FDPPI is racing ahead with its activities to prepare the country for the DPDPA Compliance Era.

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FDPPI has set up a SIG to evaluate Privacy Management tools available for DPDPA Compliance. The SIG is currently collecting information from users and evaluating them. Several Indian solutions providers are providing brief demos  to the FDPPI members during the Jnaana Vardhini Sessions in 2026.

This exercise will continue and will  enable Indian solution providers to reach out to the professionals who are associated with FDPPI.

In this context, it is noted that Forrester Wave has published it’s Q4-2025 report which has  placed One  Trust, Securiti and Big ID as the leading software solutions for Privacy Management. Transcend, Relyance AI, Truyo and  Trust Arc have been  placed in the “Strong performers” category. Additionally a couple of more software like Ketch and Osano are also  in the list of contenders for the leadership.

The  FDPPI’s SIG for Tool evaluation will be making a special evaluation of these Nine tools from the DPDPA perspective.

We are aware that “Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches”. Hence to evaluate these solutions further,  the  SIG invites information from users in a survey to be set up for the purpose.

Participation is open to Indian Companies who are using and exploring to use any of these six tools. The Survey form would be distributed to the companies individually and a representative of FDPPI may contact  them for collecting their views. The report when generated would be shared with these participating companies free of charge. The results may also be separately collated into a document with anonymised attribution and released to others.

Organizations interested in participating in the survey and obtain a copy of the final report are requested to contact Naavi.

FDPPI may also share a complementary recommendation on how the usage of the tool can be customized for DGPSI compliance.

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Most of us are familiar with the “Periodic Table” used in Chemistry to group elements into different groups for better understanding  their properties and also to predict some missing members of a pattern.

Now Mr  Martin Keen of IBM Technology has brought out an interesting presentation of a “Periodic Table for AI Terms” in this video

The video tries to briefly explain and categorize the terms used in the AI domain into a table of 4 rows and five columns.

The Four rows are Primitive, Compositions, Deployment and Emerging terms.

The five columns are five groups  of terms namely, Reactive, Retrieval, Orchestrations, Validation and Models .

It is an excellent  attempt to assist decoding of the technical terms used by the industry.

A clean table for better readability is here:

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