King Stubb & Kasiva advises Kochi and Kerala businesses on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the DPDP Rules, 2025 from our office on Banerji Road, Ernakulam.
Kochi is Kerala’s commercial centre, with IT parks, hospitals and healthcare providers, tourism and hospitality businesses, and a major port. Hospitals, hotels and travel businesses collect patients’ and guests’ personal data, and IT companies here often process data for overseas clients. The Kerala High Court also sits in Kochi.
We help Kochi businesses write clear notices, decide when consent is needed, secure guest and patient records, and set retention and deletion rules that match the DPDP Rules.
For the full picture of the law, read our one-page guide to the DPDP Act in India.
Advice on the DPDP Act and Rules from readiness through to breaches and proceedings before the Data Protection Board.
Gap assessments, data mapping, privacy notices, consent design and a compliance roadmap to 13 May 2027.
Learn moreSetting up and supporting the DPO function, including for Significant Data Fiduciaries that must appoint one.
Learn moreAnnual DPIAs, independent audits and governance for entities notified as Significant Data Fiduciaries.
Learn moreBreach intimation to the Data Protection Board and affected individuals, CERT-In reporting and regulator engagement.
Learn more1st Floor, Manavalan Building, Amulya Street, Banerji Road, Ernakulam, Kochi 682018
The practice is led from New Delhi and Bengaluru and works with our Kochi office on matters for clients here.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 bring the Act into force in three stages.
Yes. The DPDP Act applies across India to digital personal data, whether collected online or collected offline and later digitised. It also applies to businesses outside India that offer goods or services to people in India.
The DPDP Rules, 2025 were notified on 13 November 2025. The Consent Manager provisions apply from 13 November 2026, and the core obligations on notice, consent, security safeguards, breach intimation, data principal rights and retention apply from 13 May 2027.
Generally yes, with a clear notice, unless a legitimate use applies. Section 7 allows processing without consent in a medical emergency, for treatment during a public health threat, and where a person voluntarily provides data for a specified purpose and has not objected.
Complaints under the DPDP Act go to the Data Protection Board of India, and appeals from the Board go to TDSAT within 60 days. Civil courts cannot hear matters the Board can decide, but writ petitions and constitutional challenges can be brought before the Kerala High Court.
Call the Kochi office on +91-484-3592950, visit us at Banerji Road, Ernakulam, or send an enquiry through our contact form. A member of the data privacy team will respond.
The same data privacy team advises from each King Stubb & Kasiva office.
Tell us what your organisation does with personal data and what you need. A member of the data privacy team will respond.
Last reviewed 29 September 2026. General information, not legal advice.
