fortax-india-dpdp-actlisted
Install: claude install-skill amit-voais/fortax-skills
# India DPDP Act, 2023
Needs Python 3 and internet: runs `scripts/fortax.py` (the Fortax engine on ai.fortax.in; your file is processed and not stored).
Typical asks: "client ki app customer data leti hai, DPDP me kya karna hoga", "employee data ke liye consent chahiye?",
"breach notice ka format", "DPDP gap assessment karo", "hum foreign client ke liye data process karte hain, lagega?".
This is a map of the Act, not a legal opinion. Section numbers are pointers to where to read.
## Currency — read before advising
- The Act is Act No. 22 of 2023 (assent 11 August 2023). The **DPDP Rules, 2025** were notified in
November 2025 with **phased commencement**: provisions on the Board in force at once, consent manager
registration after about 12 months, and most fiduciary obligations (notice, security, breach
intimation, children, SDF, rights) after about 18 months. Confirm the exact commencement dates, and
any later amendment that changes them, before telling a client what is already enforceable.
- Run `python3 scripts/fortax.py kb "DPDP Rules commencement <topic>"` and quote `source` and `captured`.
If `match` is `weak` or `none`, say "confirm in the DPDP Rules, 2025 as notified (meity.gov.in / egazette)".
- Periods and thresholds marked *(Rules — confirm)* below are from the Rules as notified and are the kind
of figure that gets amended. Penalty maxima are in the Schedule to the Act.
- An earlier version of the source text this skill adapts had several section re