Foundations
Grievance & Enforcement
What happens when the DPDP Act is broken — the Data Protection Board of India, how to file a complaint, how an inquiry runs, and where appeals and penalties land. The complaint-to-enforcement journey, from raising a grievance with the business to a Tribunal decision.
Meet the Data Protection Board of India: the body behind your privacyThe Data Protection Board of India enforces the DPDP Act — inquiring into breaches, hearing complaints, and imposing penalties. Here's how it works.How to file a data privacy complaint in India: a step-by-step guideA company mishandled your data? Here's how to complain under the DPDP Act — first to the business, then to the Data Protection Board of India — step by step.What happens after you file a data privacy complaint? How the Data Protection Board investigatesFiled a complaint with the Data Protection Board? What happens next — the decision to inquire, the inquiry itself, mediation, undertakings, and how cases end.Appeals, tribunals and penalties: how DPDP enforcement actually worksHow DPDP enforcement works end to end — the Board's penalties up to ₹250 crore, how they're decided, and appeals to the TDSAT within 60 days of a Board order.