Digital and Online Privacy Management

Business managers across sectors now operate at the centre of a data-intensive economy. Every digital product, mobile application, customer interaction, employee process and AI-enabled service generates personal data—and every data flow creates potential legal, reputational, operational and commercial exposure. Privacy can therefore no longer be treated solely as the responsibility of legal, compliance, cybersecurity or IT teams. It is increasingly a line-management and leadership responsibility.
India’s privacy landscape has entered a decisive implementation phase. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 and the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 together establish India’s first comprehensive framework for governing digital personal data. The Rules were notified in November 2025 and follow a phased commencement schedule. The Data Protection Board of India has been legally established, while the process of staffing and operationalising the institution is continuing.
The Consent Manager provisions came into force in November 2026, followed by most substantive organisational obligations which are likely to come in May 2027. These include requirements concerning privacy notices, consent, security safeguards, personal-data breach notification, grievance handling, children’s data, data-principal rights and the additional responsibilities of Significant Data Fiduciaries. The programme is therefore timed at a critical point when organisations must move from general awareness to implementation readiness.
The financial consequences of inadequate privacy management are substantial. Under the DPDP Act, failure to implement reasonable security safeguards can attract a penalty of up to ?250 crore, while failure to notify a personal-data breach can attract a penalty of up to ?200 crore. India’s exposure is not merely regulatory: IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report estimates the average organisational cost of a data breach in India at ?25.5 crore, up from ?22 crore in 2025.
The global environment reinforces this urgency. European regulators imposed more than €1.2 billion in GDPR-related fines during 2025. Major enforcement actions included a €530 million penalty against TikTok over transfers of European users’ data to China and a €325 million penalty against Google over advertising and cookies without valid consent. In the United States, organisations must navigate a growing patchwork of more than 20 comprehensive state privacy laws, alongside sector-specific federal requirements.
Privacy, however, should not be viewed only as a compliance burden. It can also create business value through customer trust, stronger data governance, improved digital-product design and more responsible AI adoption. Cisco’s 2025 Data Privacy Benchmark Study found that 96% of surveyed organisations believed the benefits of privacy investment exceeded its costs, while 86% reported that privacy legislation had a positive impact on their organisation. Cisco’s 2026 study found that 90% of organisations had expanded the scope of their privacy programmes because of AI and 93% expected to allocate additional resources to privacy and data governance over the next two years. Yet only 12% described their AI-governance committees as mature and proactive.
Business leaders who understand both sides of privacy—regulatory exposure and strategic value—are better placed to make sound decisions about customer data, digital platforms, AI adoption, vendor relationships and organisational trust. This programme gives managers the legal understanding, governance frameworks, and practical tools needed to translate privacy principles into business decisions."

Objective

The programme is deliberately built for business managers and functional leaders — not privacy lawyers or technologists — and takes an integrated, decision-oriented view rather than a purely legal or purely technical one. It addresses several gaps relative to adjacent offerings:Bridges generic “data protection awareness” training and specialist legal/compliance courses with a business-decision lens suited to managers who must operationalise privacy in marketing, HR, product, and customer-facing functions.Provides structured, side-by-side benchmarking of privacy frameworks across five jurisdictions — India, the EU, the USA, Singapore, and the UAE — which most existing programmes do not offer.Includes a dedicated module on the AI–privacy intersection (generative AI, biometric recognition, algorithmic profiling) rather than treating privacy and AI governance as unrelated topics.Is timed to India's current regulatory cycle — the DPDP Rules 2025 roll-out and the Consent Manager framework going live on 13 November 2026 — so participants leave with an up-to-date, decision-ready view rather than a generic overview.Frames privacy as a business-value and trust proposition, not only a compliance cost, using current industry benchmarking data.

Contents

• Session 1 - The Digital and Online Privacy Landscape: Personal data flows, tracking and profiling, cookies, biometric and location data, the data-broker ecosystem, and generative AI/data-scraping risks.
• Session 2 - India's Data Protection Regime: The DPDP Act 2023 and DPDP Rules 2025 — consent, notice, data fiduciary and processor obligations, Significant Data Fiduciary duties (DPIAs, DPO, audits), the Consent Manager framework, breach notification, and penalties; interplay with the IT Act 2000, IT Rules 2011 (SPDI Rules), and CERT-In directions.
• Session 3 - Global Privacy Benchmarking: The EU's GDPR (lawful bases, DPIAs, DPO, cross-border transfer mechanisms), US state privacy laws (the CCPA/CPRA and the wider 20-plus-state patchwork), Singapore's PDPA, and the UAE's PDPL — commonalities, divergences, and implications for organisations operating across borders.
• Session 4 - Privacy Risk Across the Data Lifecycle: Mapping data flows; consent and notice design; cross-border data-transfer restrictions; data retention, minimisation, and erasure; vendor and third-party risk.
• Session 5 - AI and the New Privacy Frontier: Generative AI and training-data privacy, biometric and facial-recognition risk, algorithmic profiling and automated decision-making, and how the EU AI Act and India's DPDP Act intersect with AI governance.
• Session 6 - Privacy-Enhancing Technologies and Governance Frameworks: Consent management platforms, anonymisation/pseudonymisation, privacy-by-design and by-default, ISO/IEC 27701, and the NIST Privacy Framework (Identify-Govern-Control-Communicate-Protect).
• Session 7 - Building the Business Case for Privacy: Trust and brand value, privacy as competitive advantage, incident response and breach communication, and regulator/board reporting.
• Session 8 - Capstone: Building an Organisational Privacy Roadmap: Participants develop and present a privacy compliance and risk-management roadmap for their own organisation, with peer and faculty feedback.

Who should attend?

Relevant across virtually every sector that collects or processes personal data, given the horizontal reach of the DPDP Act and comparable global laws. Likely client organisations and functions include:
Banks, NBFCs, fintechs, and insurers — compliance, risk, legal, and customer-data/analytics functions.
IT/ITeS and technology firms, e-commerce and retail platforms, and telecom operators — product, marketing, and data-governance functions.
Healthcare and life-sciences organisations handling sensitive personal data, and HR/people functions managing employee data across all sectors.
Government departments, PSUs, and regulators engaged in digital service delivery and data governance.
Consulting, law, and audit firms advising clients on privacy compliance, and organisations building or appointing Data Protection Officer (DPO) capability.

Venue & Duration

The programme is scheduled during November 12-14, 2026 on a residential basis at MDI Campus, Mehrauli Road, Sukhrali, Gurugram. Accommodation for participants would be available at MDI Campus from the noon of November 11, 2026, to the forenoon of November 15, 2026.

Registration & Fees

Participants should be nominated by their organizations. The enclosed nomination form should be completed and returned with all the details. The fee of the program is Rs. 45,000/- (Rupees Forty Five Thousand only) per participant which includes a professional fee and all charges for boarding, lodging and supply of course materials during the programme. GST as applicable will be charged extra in addition to the programme fee. Payment should be made by Cheque/NEFT/RTGS.

Discount Policy
With a view to our long-term relationship with your esteemed organization, we are pleased to introduce the discount policy in this programme. The discount will be observed in the following conditions: (discount is applicable in NEPAL also)
• 10% Discount against 3-5 nominations
• 20% Discount against more than 5 nominations

Important Dates

The last date for receipt of nominations is October 29, 2026. The last date for withdrawal of nominations is October 30, 2026. Any withdrawal received after this date will be subject to deduction as per the Institute's rules. However, substitution may be permitted.
Nominating organizations are advised to await confirmation of acceptance of nominations(s) before sending the participants to the programme venue.
For enquiry, please contact at [email protected] or +91-124-4560008.