When Consent is designed for Legibility

Between June and August 2026, the central government is expected to operationalise the Consent Manager framework under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The Consent Manager is an interoperable platform that lets citizens grant, review, and withdraw data permissions across multiple digital services from one place. The framework also requires privacy notices to be available in English or any of the 22 official Indian languages . News Source: MeitY on request. Full enforcement, including penalties up to ₹250 crore, begins May 2027. Indian consent flows today are illegible long, defaulted-to-yes, near-impossible to reverse. A working Consent Manager turns consent into a designed object: legible, multilingual, and reversible. Whether citizens use it depends less on the law than on whether the interface earns their attention. Privacy regimes usually fail at usability, not at law.

Privacy regimes usually fail at usability, not at law.