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Consent

Consent must be free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous, given by clear affirmative action, and limited to data necessary for the specified purpose. Withdrawal must be as easy as giving it, and must stop processing within a reasonable time.

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Section 6DPDP Act, 2023Data Fiduciary
What this requires

Consent must be free, specific, informed, unconditional and unambiguous, given by clear affirmative action, and limited to data necessary for the specified purpose. Withdrawal must be as easy as giving it, and must stop processing within a reasonable time.

Evidence a regulator would accept

  • Consent artefacts
  • Immutable consent event trail
  • Withdrawal propagation records

How this product discharges it

consent (primary)discoverydlpai guard
Our position

Changing this recalculates the readiness score immediately.

Current
Partially compliant
Residual risk
Medium
Owner
Vikram Saxena
Last reviewed
12 Jul 2026
Next review due
16 Sept 2026

Open gaps (4)

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Evidence (1)

Documents indexed against this obligation in the evidence vault.

History

  1. Clause status updated following remediationyesterday
    06 Aug 2026, 00:30Deepika Joshi
  2. Clause status updated following remediation4 days ago
    03 Aug 2026, 17:30Rohit Verma
  3. Clause status updated following remediation6 days ago
    01 Aug 2026, 10:30Naveen Kulkarni
  4. Clause status updated following remediation8 days ago
    30 Jul 2026, 06:30Vikram Saxena
  5. Clause status updated following remediation10 days ago
    28 Jul 2026, 00:30Imran Sethi
  6. Clause status updated following remediation13 days ago
    25 Jul 2026, 16:30System
  7. Position reviewed and recorded26 days ago
    12 Jul 2026, 11:55Vikram Saxena

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