Policy & Regulation
India's DPDPA treats brain signals like a shopping cart, a legal scholar argues
In a LiveLaw analysis published 30 August 2026, CHRIST University Assistant Professor Namit Srivastava argues that India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 applies the same consent framework to neural data as it applies to a shopping cart, and that MeitY should add neural data as a sensitive category via delegated rule-making under Section 40 without reopening the Act. The piece is legal-scholar analysis, not Indian government policy. It lands two days after the 28 August ADI Neuroscience US$1 billion India neurotech fund announcement.