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OFFICIAL-SOURCE LEDGER / 30 AUGUST 2026

Pinpoint the provision, then state the phase.

This public static library uses official MeitY, Gazette and PIB sources and avoids treating an entire instrument as one commencement state.

PUBLIC STATIC / STATUS RECORD

Read this as a boundary, not a launch claim.

Current web tools are browser-only. Any release, commercial, server, account or external-service capability remains deliberately disabled until its evidence and owner decisions exist.

Act commencement

G.S.R. 843(E), 13 November 2025: selected Act provisions commenced on publication; section 6(9) and section 27(1)(d) are scheduled one year later; most substantive duties and rights are scheduled eighteen months later.

Rules commencement

G.S.R. 846(E), read with G.S.R. 892(E): Rules 1, 2 and 17–21 commenced on publication; Rule 4 is scheduled one year later; Rules 3, 5–16, 22 and 23 are scheduled eighteen months later.

Current official status context

The Press Information Bureau update of 5 August 2026 describes phased implementation over an eighteen-month transition period. It is context, not a substitute for the Gazette commencement instruments.

Editorial boundary

Re-check the Gazette, corrigenda and later notifications before operational or public use. The source date is content metadata, not proof of continuing accuracy.

APP-LOCAL SOURCE RECORDS

Resolve every generated source ID.

These IDs are the stable references used by current tool outputs. Official authorities sit beside versioned, clearly labelled local-method records; publication and effective dates remain separate because publication does not make every provision operative.

act-2023mixed phased commencement

Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023

Pinpoint
Act 22 of 2023, section 1(2), published 11 August 2023
Published
2023-08-11
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Publication is provenance, not an instrument-wide operative date; provision status is governed by G.S.R. 843(E).
Last checked
2026-08-30
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act-commencement-843emixed phased commencement

DPDP Act commencement notification G.S.R. 843(E)

Pinpoint
G.S.R. 843(E), clauses (a)–(c), Gazette publication 13 November 2025
Published
2025-11-13
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
The notification assigns publication-date, one-year and eighteen-month commencement cohorts to specified Act provisions.
Last checked
2026-08-30
Open official record →
rules-2025mixed phased commencement

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

Pinpoint
G.S.R. 846(E), Rule 1(2)–(4), read with G.S.R. 892(E)
Published
2025-11-13
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Corrected Rule 1 assigns publication-date, one-year and eighteen-month commencement cohorts; tool copy resolves the relevant Rule before labelling status.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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rules-2025-corrigendumofficial corrigendum

Corrigendum to the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025

Pinpoint
G.S.R. 892(E), dated 10 December and Gazette-published 11 December 2025; items (i)(a)–(b) correct Rule 1 wording
Published
2025-12-11
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
The corrigendum corrects wording in Rule 1 and does not change the source-led phase dates used by this preview.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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dpdp-store-method-0.2local method not legal authority

dpdp.store deterministic tool methodology, version 0.2

Pinpoint
Notice Linter version/effective-date traceability heuristic
Published
2026-08-20
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Local evidence-design method. This record is not extracted from the Act, Rules or official guidance.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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dpdp-store-method-0.3local method not legal authority

dpdp.store deterministic Notice Linter methodology, version 0.3

Pinpoint
Notice Linter collection-surface context, bounded text metrics and version traceability heuristics
Published
2026-08-26
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Local evidence-design method. Supplied surface, data and purpose terms are compared deterministically with the draft; a match is not a legal, readability or live-interface conclusion.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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dpdp-store-method-0.4local method not legal authority

dpdp.store deterministic Consent Receipt methodology, version 0.4

Pinpoint
Four-lane receipt field model, shape limits, comparison classes, chronology cues and data-minimised report
Published
2026-08-26
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Local evidence-design method. Fourteen required fields are shape-checked across event, notice/purpose, choice/withdrawal and integrity lanes; the tool does not authenticate events, recalculate digests or establish consent validity.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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dpdp-store-method-0.5local method not legal authority

dpdp.store deterministic Data Inventory methodology, version 0.5

Pinpoint
Four inventory review lanes, controlled field states, bounded semicolon vocabulary, possible-duplicate cue and editable relationship projection
Published
2026-08-26
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Local evidence-design method. Twelve canonical fields are reviewed across system/accountability, data/people/source, purpose/movement and lifecycle/evidence lanes; supplied labels and relationship projections are not discovery or legal conclusions.
Last checked
2026-08-30
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dpdp-store-method-0.6local method not legal authority

dpdp.store deterministic EvidencePacketV1 methodology, version 0.6

Pinpoint
Explicit current-result staging, source-status provenance, default raw-input exclusion, warned synthetic-fixture opt-in, schema validation, migration, JSON, accessible HTML and print
Published
2026-08-30
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
Local evidence-design method. Packet composition does not establish legal proof, compliance, source completeness or human-review completion.
Last checked
2026-08-30
Open local method →
pib-status-2026-08-05official guidance or explainer

Digital India data-protection status update

Pinpoint
Press Information Bureau release, 5 August 2026, data-protection section
Published
2026-08-05
Instrument-wide effective date
None — resolve by provision or document type
Method
The official update confirms an eighteen-month phased implementation timeline but does not override Gazette commencement notifications.
Last checked
2026-08-30
Open official record →

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