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First documentThe 2026 DPDP Audit Checklist: 50 Things Auditors Will Ask ForOpen original ↗
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Common questions about DPDP audit readiness
External expertise is most valuable where DPDP leaves room for interpretation or where your organisation faces heightened scrutiny. Typical triggers include assessing whether you are likely to be designated a Significant Data Fiduciary, designing cross-border data strategies as government notifications evolve, reconciling DPDP with sectoral rules from regulators such as the RBI or SEBI, and planning responses to serious incidents that may require notification to the Data Protection Board and affected Data Principals. Specialist privacy auditors can also pressure-test your controls against emerging industry practice and provide independent reports for boards or major customers. For procurement, it is useful to anticipate these engagements early for high-value deals or renewals where counterparties are likely to increase their DPDP expectations. [4] The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 - Government of India – India Code Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India Explanatory Note to Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 – Legislative Brief and Summary - PRS Legislative Research Monthly Policy Review – January 2025 (DPDP Rule-making) - PRS Legislative Research Guidelines on Digital Lending – Reserve Bank of India - Reserve Bank of India
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Executive checklist and common questions on DPDP legacy data
DPDP sits alongside, not above, sectoral and general laws that impose record-keeping duties. If RBI, SEBI, IRDAI, TRAI, or tax statutes require you to retain certain records for a defined number of years, you generally must continue to hold that data even if a Data Principal withdraws consent or asks for erasure, to the extent necessary to meet those legal obligations. Under DPDP, this can operate as a lawful basis under the category of compliance with law or legitimate uses. However, that does not give you a free licence to use the same data for unrelated purposes, such as marketing or broad profiling, once consent is withdrawn or the original purpose has been served. The practical approach is to build and maintain a retention schedule that clearly maps each category of data to its governing laws and minimum retention periods, ensure that fields kept solely for statutory purposes are segregated and access-controlled, and delete or anonymise non-essential fields when they are no longer needed. Where sectoral regulators issue their own privacy or cyber guidelines, align your legacy data programme with those expectations as well, so that you can show both the Data Protection Board and your primary regulator that you have reconciled the two regimes in a thoughtful, documented way. [2] Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 - Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, Government of India DPDP Rules, 2025 Notified – A Citizen-Centric Framework for Privacy Protection and Responsible Data Use - Press Information Bureau, Government of India Decrypting India’s New Data Protection Law: Key Insights and Lessons Learned - Bird & Bird Top 10 operational impacts of India’s DPDPA – Individual rights - International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Summary of DSCI’s submission to MeitY on Draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 - Data Security Council of India