DPDPA 2023 was passed in August 2023 and is shortly expected to be notified.
Over the last two years some companies have already started their compliance work firstly by conducting a Risk Assessment and then trying to implement Governance solutions in terms of policies for handling personal data.
Now most of these companies are being offered several solutions from the market about Data Discovery or Consent Management etc. The DPOs are finding it difficult to take a view on which product to chose since once they implement any product, it will be difficult to make changes later if there is a change in the rules or a better product surfaces.
The NeGD has also announced a “Coding Challenge” for Consent Management and participants are likely to come up with several solutions a couple of which may even be endorsed by NeGD as “Winners of the contest”.
FDPPI is committed to ensuring that DPDPA Compliance is properly embedded into such tools and solutions.
In this context FDPPI has already offered an evaluation of a DPDPA Compliance product in the perspective of the DGPSI framework.
This adhoc measure is now being formalized through an “Evaluation and Mentorship of Companies Engaged in development of DPDPA Compliance products”. This will be offered to select Corporate Members who are termed “Special Associate Members” of FDPPI.
The scheme will be tailored to specific companies on a case to case basis. The evaluation will be conducted by a consortium of senior FDPPI members.
The “SAM” scheme will provide the following benefits.
- Evaluation of the functional aspects of the product from DGPSI perspective
- Mentoring the development team for improvements
- Opportunity to show case products in FDPPI fora
The SAM will have a corporate membership fee which will be based on the products of the company. Existing Corporate Members can also get their product evaluated as an extension of their current service which was limited to DPDPA consultancy and Employee training or a priority pricing basis.
It is open to the community to take advantage of this facility.
Naavi
