DPDP handbooks, free to download.
Field-tested playbooks written by the DataRakshaq team. Practical, opinionated, and grounded in real enterprise deployments across banking, edtech, healthcare and SaaS.
The RoPA Guide Book
A field-tested playbook for building, running, and defending a Records of Processing Activities register — mapping every data flow, purpose, lawful basis, retention, and processor obligation under India's DPDP Act.
- Step-by-step RoPA build methodology
- Templates for controllers, processors and joint controllers
- Common pitfalls and audit-ready checklists
Understanding Data Subject Rights (DSR)
The definitive plain-English guide to every right India's DPDP Act grants to Data Principals — and the exact operational workflows enterprises must run to honour them within statutory timelines.
- All 6 statutory rights, decoded with examples
- End-to-end DSR fulfilment workflow
- Grievance redressal and DPB escalation
Data Lens - Data Discovery & Classification
How DataRakshaq finds, scans, and classifies personal data across structured and unstructured sources — connectors, ML classifiers, sensitivity taxonomies, and how discovery outputs feed every downstream module.
- Coverage across databases, files, SaaS and streams
- Sensitivity taxonomy aligned to DPDP data categories
- How discovery feeds RoPA, DSAR and Breach modules
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