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Notice on DPDP Rules, 2025. The Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified on 14 November 2025. With this notification, Section 44(3) of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 became operational and amended Section 8(1)(j) of the Right to Information Act, 2005. The earlier public interest override within clause (j) stands removed. Public interest reasoning now operates through Section 8(2) of the RTI Act, which has not been amended. This page has been reviewed in the light of this change. For the full practitioner note, see DPDP Rules, 2025: The amendment to Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act.