How to Generate Synthetic UPI Transaction Data for Fraud Detection
python
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India's DPDP Act just made your training data illegal. Here's how to build fraud detection models anyway. Every AI team building UPI fraud detection in India faces the same impossible problem: you need millions of transaction records to train a model, but you can't legally use real user data. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (DPDP Act) — specifically Section 4(1) — requires explicit consent for processing personal data. Section 8(7) mandates data minimization. Real UPI transactio