DPDP Act 2023 + RTI course - final certificate

You have completed the 5-module DPDP + RTI course. The course trains compliance officers, data protection officers (DPOs), RTI activists and tech professionals to navigate the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (in force from 14 November 2025) and its overlap with the Right to Information Act, 2005. The most important overlap is the §44(3) DPDP amendment that deleted the proviso to §8(1)(j) of the RTI Act - reshaping how personal-information exemption claims work.

1. Module 1: DPDP Act architecture - data principal, data fiduciary, consent, processing grounds, the Data Protection Board (DPB), penalties up to ₹250 crore.
2. Module 2: Significant Data Fiduciary obligations - DPDP Rules 2025, paragraph 12-14, mandate Data Protection Officers, audits, and DPIA.
3. Module 3: §44(3) and the RTI Act - how the proviso to §8(1)(j) (“information which cannot be denied to Parliament or a State Legislature”) was deleted, and why public-interest balance now anchors entirely in §8(2).
4. Module 4: Consent + cross-border transfer - the DPDP consent-manager framework, child-data, and the negative-list of countries.
5. Module 5: How to file a DPDP complaint vs an RTI - the right route depending on what you want.

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• Issued by: RTI Wiki Editorial Team, May 2026
• Verifies: Completion of 5-module DPDP + RTI overlap training
• Verification URL: https://righttoinformation.wiki/verify-cert.html

1. File a DPDP complaint - via the Data Protection Board (DPB) at https://dpb.gov.in (if launched). The DPB Rules 2025 specify the complaint procedure.
2. File an RTI to read your data fiduciary's audit report (if it is a public authority) - use AI RTI Drafter.
3. Read the canonical pillar: Complete DPDP Act 2023 guide.

• Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Act 22 of 2023), as in force from 14 November 2025.
• Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, notified in Gazette of India 14 November 2025.
• DPDP Act, §44(3) - amends §8(1)(j) of the RTI Act 2005.
• CPIO Supreme Court v. Subhash Chandra Agarwal (2020) 5 SCC 481 - personal-information balance test, still applicable post-DPDP.
• Justice K S Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) 10 SCC 1 - constitutional foundation of privacy as a fundamental right.

• Complete DPDP Act 2023 guide
• Complete RTI Act 2005 guide
• Case-law database
• All free tools

Last reviewed: 4 May 2026.