Panel Discussion | India’s Emerging Digital Data Protection Architecture: Possibilities and Concerns
Online Mode
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Friday, December 12, 2025, 5:00 pm
The Chair on Consumer Law and Practice, NLSIU and the Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) is organising an online panel discussion on ‘India’s Emerging Digital Data Protection Architecture: Possibilities and Concerns’ on December 12, 2025 from 5 pm to 6.30 pm.
Participation is only on pre-registration basis. Register here.
Panellists
- Amit Bhasin, Chief Legal Officer and Group General Counsel for Marico Limited
- Lagna Panda, Partner, AP & Partners
- Manisha Kapoor, CEO & Secretary General, ASCI
- Shashank Mohan, Associate Director, Centre for Communication Governance, NLU Delhi
Moderator
Dr. Garima Gupta, Assistant Professor, NLSIU
About the Session
The Supreme Court of India has declared privacy and informational self-determination as fundamental rights. Taking this into account, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDPA) provides for a framework to balance between individual autonomy and legitimate public and commercial uses of data. The Act governs the processing of digital personal data.
It seeks to balance two objectives:
* Protecting an individual’s right to privacy; and
* Ensuring that personal data can be used for legitimate and lawful purposes.
The Act also establishes a unified legal framework for how entities in India collect, store and process digital personal data with the twin aims of protecting individual autonomy and enabling responsible, data-driven economic growth. The DPDP Act, 2023 and the recently notified DPDP Rules, 2025, together represent the most significant attempt yet to articulate a unified legal architecture for this balance.
While the DPDPA laid down broad principles around rights of data principals, duties of Data Fiduciaries, cross-border transfer constraints and the institutional creation of the Data Protection Board, the DPDP Rules, 2025 provides for a compliance architecture.
The goal of this panel discussion is to explore how India’s new DPDP Act can be put into practice in a way that protects people’s rights, builds trust in how organisations use data and still allows India’s digital economy and innovation to grow.
For more information or queries, please contact Dr. Sudhanshu Kumar/Ms. Meenakshi R/Mr. Harsha N by writing to