Erasure and retention periods
Specified classes of Data Fiduciary must erase personal data once the prescribed period elapses without the Data Principal approaching them, and must give advance intimation before erasure. Maintain logs of personal data and processing for the prescribed period.
Rule 8DPDP Rules, 2025Data Fiduciary
What this requires
Specified classes of Data Fiduciary must erase personal data once the prescribed period elapses without the Data Principal approaching them, and must give advance intimation before erasure. Maintain logs of personal data and processing for the prescribed period.
Evidence a regulator would accept
- Retention schedule by purpose
- Pre-erasure notification records
- Erasure execution log
How this product discharges it
discovery (primary)
Our position
Changing this recalculates the readiness score immediately.
- Current
- Gap
- Residual risk
- High
- Owner
- Vikram Saxena
- Last reviewed
- 22 Apr 2026
- Next review due
- 29 Jan 2027
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History
- Clause status updated following remediationyesterday06 Aug 2026, 00:30Deepika Joshi
- Clause status updated following remediation4 days ago03 Aug 2026, 17:30Rohit Verma
- Clause status updated following remediation6 days ago01 Aug 2026, 10:30Naveen Kulkarni
- Clause status updated following remediation8 days ago30 Jul 2026, 06:30Vikram Saxena
- Clause status updated following remediation10 days ago28 Jul 2026, 00:30Imran Sethi
- Clause status updated following remediation13 days ago25 Jul 2026, 16:30System
- Position reviewed and recorded4 months ago22 Apr 2026, 11:55Vikram Saxena