Who should you hire for DPDP compliance?
There are five options for DPDP compliance, and each stops at a different point. A law firm gives legal advice. A consultant gives a gap report. A Consent Manager gives consent infrastructure. An in-house hire gives capacity if you can find one. An implementation partner builds the fixes into your product. The work the Act actually demands is engineering, so the question is who writes the code.
Where each option ends
- ✓A law firm interprets the Act and gives you legal opinions. That is necessary and it is theirs to provide. It is not implementation. You leave with advice and all the building still ahead of you.
- ✓A compliance consultant audits your product and hands over a gap report. Useful as a diagnosis. It tells you what is wrong without fixing any of it.
- ✓A Consent Manager is registered infrastructure that stores and manages consent. It holds consent, but your product still has to read that consent and obey it.
- ✓An in-house hire gives you lasting capacity, if you can hire the rare person who understands both the Act and your codebase.
- ✓An implementation partner opens the codebase and builds the obligations into the product, then hands you a compliance evidence pack proving what was done.
The honest answer for most companies
Your counsel for legal opinions, a Consent Manager for consent infrastructure, and an implementation partner to build the rest. getdpdpcompliant.com is that implementation layer, complementary to the others, not a replacement for legal advice.
"getdpdpcompliant.com is the implementation layer. Complementary to your legal team, not a replacement for it."
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Written by Smoketrees Digital LLP, a product engineering studio based in Bengaluru. We implement DPDP compliance directly into codebases for Indian product companies.