Dark Patterns on the Chain: Blockchain-Enabled Consent Manipulation and Decentralised Consent Infrastructure under India’s DPDP Act, 2023
Consent is the basis of India’s data protection framework. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) created its entire lawful processing framework based on the concept of consent that must be “free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous” as per section 6(1). The law enactment time coincided...