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The Press Club of India (PCI) said connected Monday (November 24, 2025) that the “ambiguity and open-ended scope” of definite clauses of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, “escalates the imaginable for weaponisation of the instrumentality manifold.”
Expressing “anguish” implicit the mode successful which the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules were notified recently, the PCI said it, on with 22 different property bodies, had submitted a Joint Memorandum successful June 2025 to MEITY successful an effort to prosecute with the Union Government connected the law.
They “flagged superior lacunae successful the DPDP Act, 2023, that impinge upon property state and straight deed Article 19 (1).”
“The volition of submitting the Joint Memorandum was two-fold. The first, was to prosecute with the authorities successful the astir constructive and antiauthoritarian mode to assistance it travel retired with a exemplary codification of implementation (Rules) that did not strangle the functioning of journalists and media organisations successful the world’s largest democracy,” it said.
“The second, was to show that immoderate of the sections of the DPDP Act, 2023, were riddled with superior ambiguities owed to their sweeping definitions and scope. The loosely drafted sections unfastened up galore possibilities of weaponisation of the instrumentality with the intent of curtailing property freedom,” said the PCI.
“We astatine nary signifier asked for repealing the law. We are rather alert of the necessity of a instrumentality for protecting idiosyncratic information of citizens successful the integer age,” it said, adding that the property bodies had submitted a acceptable of 35 questions connected August 22, 2025, further elaborating the real-world scenarios, for seeking clarification astir the exertion of definite sections.
