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DPDP, in plain English.
News, deadline reminders and guides for Indian website owners working through the DPDP Act.
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- Guide
DPDP-era scams: Grievance-Officer phishing, fake consent emails, and what real DPDP communication looks like
The DPDP Act 2023 is creating a new category of fraud — emails that pretend to be from a Grievance Officer, fake 'review your consent' SMS, and bogus 'claim your DPDP refund' campaigns. Here's how to tell a real DPDP communication from a scam.
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- Guide
Secure your website in 7 days — a day-by-day DPDP sprint plan
If you have one week, here is the exact order of operations that takes an Indian SMB website from 'open exposure' to 'defensible' under the DPDP Act. One job per day, each shippable by a single owner.
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Correct your website fast — five mistakes that fail every DPDP scan
We scan hundreds of Indian sites a week and the same five mistakes show up almost every time. None of them takes more than an afternoon to fix — but together they account for around 70 % of the Fail flags on a typical first scan.
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Apply the DPDP Rules 2025 to a Shopify store — exact app stack and settings
Indian D2C runs on Shopify, and Shopify is opinionated about cookies, checkout PII and analytics in ways that quietly fail DPDP. Here is the exact app stack, checkout config and theme edits that get a Shopify storefront to a defensible posture.
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Secure your website in a weekend — the DPDP fast-track for Indian SMBs
You don't need a six-month privacy programme to be DPDP-defensible. Here's a Friday-evening-to-Sunday-night sprint that closes the four gaps every Indian SMB website has, with copy-paste snippets and the free tools to ship it.
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12 cookie-control mistakes Indian websites make — and the one-hour fix for each
We've scanned thousands of Indian websites. The same twelve cookie-control mistakes show up over and over — most of them attractive to enforcement because they're visible from the public web. Here's each one, why it's risky under DPDP, and the under-60-minute fix.
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