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The Grievance Officer Your Startup Definitely Needs – And the Data Protection Officer It Probably Doesn’t
Here is a conversation that happens in startup circles more often than it should. A founder reads about the DPDP Act. They get to the part about appointing a Data Protection Officer. They panic slightly, calculate what a senior privacy professional costs, decide they cannot afford one, and put the whole compliance question aside for…
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Consent Is The Most Misunderstood Word in Data Law. Here’s What It Actually Means Under the DPDP Act.
Here is a situation most Indian founders have been in. You’re building a mobile app. Before launch, your lawyer or a well-meaning friend who once read a legal blog, tells you to add a privacy policy. You find a template online, swap out the company name, add it to your footer and move on. Launch…
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Your App Collects Data. Here’s what the DPDP Act Actually Wants You to do about it.
Imagine this. You’ve build a fitness app. Users sign up with their name, email and date of birth. You store it in a Google Sheet for now. Your Privacy Policy is a template you found online, copied and forgot about. Fifty thousand users later, the question arises, ‘Are you DPDP compliant ?’ You have no…