Consent manager portal goes live without DPBI members

New Delhi | Bengaluru: The Data Protection Board of India’s (DPBI) registration portal for consent managers under India’s data protection regime went live late on Friday night, despite the board members not yet being selected. However, companies that build privacy and data protection compliance software and experts pointed out that the key official guidelines remain unclear.

Provisions concerning consent managers under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) rules, 2025 came into effect on Friday, exactly 12 months after the rules were notified. Set to be neutral intermediaries or single point of contact for individuals to give, manage,