# DPDP Rules 2025 explained: 23 rules, schedules and deadlines

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The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025. Notified 13 November 2025. 23 rules and 7 schedules. Commencement: 14 November 2025 (Rules 1, 2, 17 to 21, Board machinery); 14 November 2026 (Rule 4, Consent Managers); 14 May 2027 (Rules 3, 5 to 16, 22, 23: every substantive business obligation).

- [Notification and phased commencement](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/notification-and-phased-commencement/index.md)
- [Rule map](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-map/index.md)
- [Rule 3, notice](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-3-notice/index.md)
- [Rule 4 and the First Schedule, Consent Managers](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-4-and-the-first-schedule-consent-managers/index.md)
- [Rule 6, reasonable security safeguards](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-6-reasonable-security-safeguards/index.md)
- [Rule 7, intimation of personal data breach](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-7-intimation-of-personal-data-breach/index.md)
- [Rule 8 and the Third Schedule, retention and erasure](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-8-and-the-third-schedule-retention-and-erasure/index.md)
- [Rules 10 and 11, verifiable consent for children and persons with disability](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rules-10-and-11-verifiable-consent-for-children-and-persons-with-disability/index.md)
- [Rule 13, Significant Data Fiduciary obligations](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-13-significant-data-fiduciary-obligations/index.md)
- [Rule 14, rights of Data Principals](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-14-rights-of-data-principals/index.md)
- [Rule 15, transfers outside India](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/rule-15-transfers-outside-india/index.md)
- [Other rules in brief](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/other-rules-in-brief/index.md)
- [What is still missing even with the Rules](https://mksd0398.github.io/dpdp-act-skill/rules/what-is-still-missing-even-with-the-rules/index.md)