DPDPA the law that protects the rights of Data Principals and defines the responsibilities of a Data Fiduciaries who collect and process Personal data in India (or for providing any services to Indian Data Principals), is now in place.
The Data Protection Board is under formation. Companies are scrambling for finding Data Protection Officers.
Quietly, FDPPI is ushering in the era of Independent Data Auditors who are as important as DPOs. Every Significant Data Fiduciary in India needs a DPO and also an Independent Data Auditor. Hence in terms of opportunities, there will be as many opportunities for Independent Data Auditors as DPOs. Additionally every DPO and every Independent Data Auditor will require professionals to assist them.
FDPPI has recognized this need and is creating the eco system to build Independent Data Auditors in India through the Association of Independent Data Auditors of India (AIDAI).
AIDAI has already empanelled Auditors in the category of Accredited IDAs, Certified IDA s and also Probationary IDA s. Today the first induction program for the entrants to this profession is being organized in Bangalore. (Check www.aidai.org.in or www.fdppi.in for details)
The Independent Data Auditors or IDA s will be the Guardians of Data Accountability who will audit Data Fiduciaries and also be the eyes and years of the Data Protection Board. True “Independence” does not come externally. It is in the minds of the Auditors who have a sense of Ethics and responsibility to protect the objectives for which the law has created this profession.
An “Inner Engineering” is required for those who are good enough to be DPOs by knowledge to be IDA s. Let us begin our journey externally and internally to acquire both the expertise and also develop the attitude. The starting point is the induction program planned by FDPPI.
Let us pray to God Vigneshwara to lead us to a prosperous future of IDA s.
Having recognized the importance of this profession and having recognised that in the upcoming AI world every Data Fiduciary would be dependent on the AI and absorbing its unknown risks rendering them “Significant Data Fiduciaries”. Hence there should be a need for a large number of Significant Data Fiduciaries in India.
Though there is a concerted effort from certain sections of the industry to dilute the implementation mechanism by exploiting the conflict that MeitY has in implementing regulation for the IT industry which it is responsible for development, there are enough vigilante entities in India to prevent such a happenning.
The revolution of IDA s is therefore already taking shape with FDPPI at the forefront.
Welcome aboard.
Naavi
