Understanding Draft Data Protection Rules

We are pleased to announce the speakers for our discussion “Understanding the Draft Data Protection Rules, 2025.” The event aims to address the challenges associated with operationalising various aspects of the rules including verifiable parental consent, the 72-hour data breach reporting timelines, implementing consent managers, and so on. 

Date: 7 February, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM (lunch will start 1:00 PM onwards) 

Venue: Gulmohar Hall, India Habitat Center, New Delhi

Note: Given the overwhelming response to our event, registrations are currently on a waitlist. If any confirmed attendees cancel their registration, we will send you a confirmation email. Only confirmed attendees will be able to attend the event. We will send you a confirmation by Tuesday, February 4.  You can join the discussion waitlist by registering here.

Agenda:

9:30AM to 10:00AM: Registration and networking
10:00AM to 1:00PM: 

• Rights of Data Principals & Obligations of Data Fiduciaries
• Data Localisation & Obligations of Significant Data Fiduciaries

1:00PM to 1:45PM: Lunch
1:45PM to 4:00PM: 

• Data Breach Reporting
• Consent Managers and Their Role in Data Protection
• Confusion Around Children’s Data and Verification

To give us diverse perspectives on the many issues associated with implementing these rules, we have discussants from the legal community, civil society and the industry. We will have participation from:

• Rakesh Maheshwari, Former Sr. Director and Group Coordinator, MeitY
• Rama Vedashree, Independent Director, Board of Jio Financial Services 
• Saranya Gopinath, Head of Policy & Government Partnerships, Razorpay
• Vivek Abraham, Public Policy and Government Affairs in South Asia, Salesforce 
• Meghna De, Associate Counsel, Gameskraft
• Uthara Ganesh, Head of Public Policy, Snap Inc
• Aparajita Bharti, co-founder, The Quantum Hub
• Sreenidhi Srinivasan, Partner, Ikigai Law
• Shalini Gupta, Chief Policy and Advocacy Officer, Sahamati
• GV Anand Bhushan, Founder Bhushan Rajaram, Advocates & Consultants
• Manasa Venkataraman, Lead Counsel, Privacy (APAPC) Meta
• Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, BSA The Software Alliance
• Jhalak Kakkar, Executive Director, CCG NLU Delhi

What are we discussing?

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has published a draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025. These rules operationalise India’s Data Protection Law and put in place a range of requirements for any company that processes personal data. 

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These include obtaining verifiable parental consent before processing the data of anyone under the age of 18, reporting personal data breaches to affected individuals and the Data Protection Board, and providing the Board with a list of measures the company will implement to mitigate the risks posed by the breach within a period of 72 hours. The rules also outline the requirements a company needs to qualify to become a consent manager and the obligations of consent managers. 

MediaNama’s event concerns surrounding the provisions of the rules, both from the tech industry and the civil society to see whether these provisions adequately balance the need to protect people’s personal data while ensuring ease of compliance. 

This discussion is being organised with support from Meta, Google, Snapchat, and Walmart and in partnership with CUTS, the Centre for Communication Governance at NLU Delhi, the Centre For Internet and Society, and the Internet Freedom Foundation.

Note: 

• Registration does not guarantee attendance. In case you fit our mandate for the intended audience, we’ll send you a confirmation before February 6, 2025.
• Your contact information will never be shared with anyone outside of MediaNama.

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