‘What is the point if the press has to ask for consent?’: News publishers tell SC that DPDP Act could create a pre-censorship regime

The Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) has challenged the Digital Personal Data Protection Act (DPDP Act), 2023 before India's Supreme Court. Representing the DNPA, Advocate Madhavi Divan argued that certain DPDP provisions would effectively establish pre-censorship by requiring journalists to obtain prior consent from news sources before publishing. Under the DPDP Act, sources and subjects of news stories could be treated as data principals with rights to demand corrections or erasure. The Supreme Court refused to stay the Act pending the government's response and scheduled the next hearing for November 17, 2026. DNPA members include major Indian media organizations such as NDTV, Ne

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