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Quick Answer

Privacy by design means building data protection into how you design and ship software — minimising data, securing it, and enabling rights like erasure — rather than bolting it on later. For DPDP, that means privacy checkpoints in the SDLC, data minimisation in APIs and schemas, and systems that can honour access and deletion requests. This checker rates how well privacy is embedded in your engineering.

Privacy by Design Checker for Engineering

Rate how well privacy is built into your SDLC and systems under the DPDP Act.

Is privacy built into our engineering?

Build it in, don't bolt it on

The DPDP Act expects organisations to protect personal data and honour rights like erasure. For software teams those are engineering behaviours: minimise what you collect, secure it, and design systems that can find and delete a person's data on request.

Teams that embed privacy checkpoints in the SDLC avoid expensive retrofits and pass enterprise security reviews more easily. This checker shows how embedded your practices are.

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SDLC privacy checkpoints, data-minimisation patterns, and an erasure-design starter for engineering.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is privacy by design?+
Building privacy into systems from the start — minimising data, securing it, enabling rights — instead of adding controls after the fact.
How do we add it without slowing down?+
Use lightweight checkpoints: a one-page privacy review per feature in design and PR. It fits existing workflows.
Why does erasure matter so much?+
Because the DPDP Act gives individuals the right to deletion, and data spread across services and backups makes that hard unless designed for.

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