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What the DPDP Act means for AI-driven data estates

Consent, DPIA and data-principal rights for enterprises deploying AI at scale.

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Arjun Rao
Data Protection Lead · 2026-05-21 · 1 min read
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What the DPDP Act means for AI-driven data estates
Regulatory

The Digital Personal Data Protection Act reframes how AI systems may ingest, retain and act on personal data. For teams running models at scale, three obligations dominate: lawful consent, purpose limitation, and the data-principal's right to correction and erasure.

Consent is now a pipeline concern

Consent can no longer be a checkbox captured once at onboarding. It must flow through every downstream model that touches the record, which means your feature store needs a consent lineage as rigorous as its data lineage.

Build the DPIA into the model lifecycle

A Data Protection Impact Assessment is most useful before a model ships, not after. Fold it into model validation so privacy risk is scored alongside performance and fairness.

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Arjun Rao

Data Protection Lead at MS RiskTec. Arjun advises boards and CROs across BFSI on model risk, explainability and regulatory readiness for AI-driven lending.

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