Data Protection

Chitnis Desai’s Data Protection & Privacy practice advises businesses, founders, platforms, investors and institutions on the collection, use, storage, sharing and governance of personal and sensitive data in India.

As data privacy becomes central to how businesses operate, scale and engage with customers, employees and counterparties, privacy compliance is no longer a purely technical or back-office issue. It is now a core legal, commercial and reputational concern. We work with clients to navigate this landscape in a way that is legally robust, commercially practical and operationally workable.

We advise on the full spectrum of privacy and data governance issues, including compliance under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, sector-specific regulatory obligations, data handling frameworks, consent architecture, privacy notices, internal governance systems, vendor risk, employee data issues and incident response preparedness.

Our practice supports clients both on day-to-day compliance and on complex strategic issues — including product design, platform launches, data-heavy business models, cross-border operations, investigations, enforcement-sensitive matters and high-risk data use cases.

We work closely with in-house legal, compliance, HR, technology and product teams to help businesses build privacy-compliant systems that function in the real world, not just on paper.

In addition to advisory and compliance work, we assist clients with internal reviews, data breach response, regulatory risk assessments, contractual data allocation and disputes or investigations involving the misuse, leakage, processing or retention of personal information.