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Become a DPDP-ready privacy lawyer in 3 weekends.

No tech background needed. Start from the Act and Rules and finish able to take a company from zero to compliant, live with partners from AZB, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, Saraf and Partners and Chandhiok & Mahajan, with templates, notes and AI workflows.

Taught live by practitioners from Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas, AZB & Partners, Saraf and Partners and Chandhiok & Mahajan.

Live · Batch 2 · November 2026
Data Privacy Law, DPDP Implementation & AI

Online certificate course

Offered by

Integrated Academy for Law & AI
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Starts
15 Nov 2026
Format
8 live lectures
Duration
3 weekends
Early Bird fee
From ₹2,999
Why now

Why every lawyer must learn this now

The DPDP Act is law and the Rules are notified. Every organisation in India must be compliant by 13 May 2027, and there are not enough trained privacy professionals to meet the demand. This course turns you into one, with the law, the implementation skills and the AI workflows to build a privacy practice.

₹250 crore

Maximum penalty per breach category under the DPDP Act

13 May 2027

The compliance deadline every organisation is working toward

DPO & Privacy Counsel

Among the fastest-growing legal roles in India

8 modules

From the framework to a live, client-ready workflow

Esteemed mentors

Taught by people who do privacy work

Partners and counsel from leading law firms, with a practising Data Protection Officer and a legal AI consultant.

Varun Pathak
Varun Pathak

Equity Partner, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas & Co.

Shagun Badhwar

Partner, AZB & Partners

Archana Iyer

Counsel, AZB & Partners

Gauhar Mirza

Partner, Saraf and Partners

Shreya Gupta

Partner, Chandhiok & Mahajan

Arrpita K Bhatt

Data Privacy and Media Lawyer

Dipanjan Dey

Data Protection Officer, HDB Financial Services

Agastya Shukla

Legal Operations & AI Consultant

Get certified

An Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate from IALA

Gain an Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate in Data Privacy, DPDP Implementation & AI from IALA.

Core areas covered

One area per module, from the Act to your first engagement

Module 01

DPDP Act & Rules

The 2023 Act and 2025 Rules read together, the roles, and penalty exposure.

Module 02

Data Mapping

The data inventory, processing register and data flow diagrams.

Module 03

Consent Architecture

Notices under Rule 3, the consent lifecycle and Consent Managers.

Module 04

DPDP for AI Systems

Training data, scraping, erasure requests and profiling.

Module 05

Privacy Documentation

Policies, SOPs, DPAs and AI vendor contracts.

Module 06

Breach Response

Rights requests, Rule 6 safeguards and breach intimation.

Module 07

AI for Privacy Work

Five AI tools applied to real privacy tasks, with guardrails.

Module 08

Career Roadmap

Building a Career in Technology, Data Protection, Privacy and AI Regulatory Law

Testimonials

Feedback from learners of the previous batch

Shreya

A C Vignesh

Nikhar Shrivastava

Master AI Tools for Privacy Work

Course eligibility

Who this course is for

Open to anyone building a career in data privacy, DPDP compliance or technology law.

01
Law students (UG & PG)
02
Young lawyers & litigators
03
In-house counsel
04
Compliance & privacy professionals
05
CS & CAs moving into privacy

No prior technical background required. Every concept is explained from a legal and practical standpoint.

Course structure

Eight modules, from the DPDP framework to a client‑ready workflow

Batch 2 goes deeper on AI, with dedicated modules on DPDP compliance for AI systems and on AI vendor contracts.

Dates

15, 21, 22 & 28 Nov 2026

Duration

8 live lectures, 3 weekends

Schedule

2 lectures each day

Mode

Online, live via Zoom
  • Reading the 2023 Act and 2025 Rules together: architecture and commencement dates
  • Roles: Data Fiduciary, Processor, Principal, Consent Manager, Significant Data Fiduciary
  • Converting the seven principles into operational obligations
  • How DPDP differs from GDPR: no legitimate interest basis, and a blacklist model for transfers
  • Penalty exposure and how the Data Protection Board functions in practice
  • Discovery across systems, vendors, shadow data and marketing stacks
  • Building the data inventory and processing register
  • Data flow diagrams and role determination for each flow
  • Tagging the lawful basis: consent or legitimate uses under Section 7
  • Mapping AI systems: training data, inference and profiling as processing
  • SDF designation triggers for AI-first companies
  • Standalone notice requirements under Rule 3, and what breaks a notice
  • The consent lifecycle: capture, log, prove, withdraw, re-consent
  • Consent Managers: provisions live from 13 November 2026 and what that means for clients
  • Consent design for chatbots, AI features and in-app data collection
  • Children’s data, verifiable parental consent and the tracking ban
  • Retrofitting consent onto legacy databases
  • Personal data in training datasets: the publicly available data exemption and its limits
  • Web scraping, dataset sourcing and third-party data risk
  • Purpose limitation when existing data is repurposed for model training
  • Erasure requests and the machine unlearning problem
  • Profiling, inferred data and automated decisions
  • AI governance benchmarks: the EU AI Act, GDPR and the India AI Governance Guidelines
  • Privacy policy, internal SOP and retention schedule
  • Data Processing Agreements and a vendor clause library
  • What your DPA must say when the processor is an LLM provider
  • Reviewing enterprise terms of major LLM providers for training opt-outs and data residency
  • AI acceptable use policy for employees
  • Data sharing agreements and cross-border addenda
  • Access, correction, erasure and nomination: scope and limits
  • A rights request workflow with internal SLAs against the 90-day ceiling
  • Rule 6 safeguards: encryption, access control and logging
  • Breach response: intimation to Principals, DPB reporting and the detailed report
  • Retention limits and erasure, including the Third Schedule classes
  • Live tabletop: an AI chatbot leaks customer data at 11pm on a Friday
  • Setting up the workspace and guardrails across Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini: anonymising before prompting, what never goes into a prompt, verifying against the Bare Act
  • Building a grounded DPDP knowledge base in NotebookLM: the Act, Rules, MeitY notifications and DPB orders, queried with citations
  • Data mapping with Gemini and Claude: locating personal data across Drive and Gmail, and converting interview notes into a processing register
  • Compliance gap assessment with ChatGPT: auditing a policy stack against Rule 3 and building a readiness scorecard against 13 May 2027
  • Document review and drafting in Claude: redlining an AI vendor DPA, simplifying consent notices and building a reusable clause bank
  • Regulatory tracking with Perplexity: DPB developments, MeitY clarifications and comparative jurisdictions
  • Operational workflows in Claude and ChatGPT: rights request triage, breach intimation under time pressure, and where AI fails
  • The tech law landscape: how technology, data protection, privacy, AI and regulatory practices overlap
  • Where the roles are: law firm TMT and regulatory teams, in-house tech counsel, Big 4 consulting, AI startups and policy think tanks
  • The AI revolution and new work streams: AI governance, AI contracts, model licensing and regulatory advisory
  • What firms look for: technical literacy, sector knowledge across fintech, telecom and e-commerce, and drafting skills
  • Building your profile: publishing, a portfolio of drafting work, and LinkedIn positioning
  • Breaking in: internships, applications and interview preparation for tech law roles
What you get

Everything that comes with the course

The Advanced plan includes everything below. The Basic plan covers the live lectures, live Q&A, and the certificate.

Both plans

Certificate of Completion

Advanced QR-verifiable, from IALA.

Advanced

Lifetime recordings

All 8 lectures for life. 

Both plans

Live Q&A

Ask every speaker directly, in each lecture.

Advanced

IALA Privacy Network

A WhatsApp community of alumni and practitioners.

A sneak peek into the course e-books

6 e-books · 430+ pages · current to 28 Oct 2026

98pages

Curated Course Notes

8 modules, one per lecture

  • Every module: the law, figures, practice tips and common mistakes
  • Comparison tables, penalty charts and flow diagrams
  • Self-check questions with answers after each module
Enroll in Advanced All six e-books come with Advanced

Cover · p. 12 DPDP vs GDPR · p. 13 Penalty exposure · p. 18 Data discovery · tap a page to enlarge it

Pricing

Choose the plan that fits you

Early Bird prices end when the timer runs out. After that, Basic goes up to ₹3,999 and Advanced to ₹5,999.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Get in touch with our team for any queries or support. Write to contact@iala.in or call the student helpline on +91 92325 93090.

Law students, young lawyers, in-house counsel, and compliance, company-secretary and finance professionals who want to build a career in data privacy and DPDP compliance. No prior technical background is required.

8 live lectures across 3 weekends, on 15, 21, 22 and 28 November 2026, with two lectures each day.

All lectures are online and live via Zoom, fully interactive, with the chance to ask questions directly to the speakers.

Yes. Advanced plan participants receive lifetime access to all recordings.

Batch 2 goes deeper on AI: dedicated modules on DPDP compliance for AI systems and on AI vendor contracts, alongside the full implementation and career track.

AI runs throughout, with a dedicated module on AI workflows for privacy practice using Claude, NotebookLM, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, plus modules on making AI systems themselves DPDP-compliant. The focus is on anonymisation, client consent and verification.

No. Every concept is explained from a legal and practical standpoint.

Yes. On successful completion you receive an Advanced QR-Verifiable Certificate of Completion in Data Privacy, DPDP Implementation & AI from IALA.

The Basic plan (₹2,999) includes the live lectures, live Q&A and the certificate. The Advanced plan (₹3,999) adds lifetime recordings and the full resource library: Curated Notes, the DPDP Template Pack, Implementation Guide, AI Prompt Library, Annotated Act and Rules, Privacy Career Kit and the IALA Privacy Network.

No. The course does not guarantee placement, but its practical resources, career kit and roadmap are designed to meaningfully strengthen your profile.

Early Bird prices won't last

Batch 2 starts on 15 November. Register Early Bird before the price goes up.

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