Choose your role

Pick the work you do.

Written and edited by Sandesh Kokate

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You are the boss for your users and the helper for your customers: contracts, breach alerts, erasure.

Usually the helper: client contracts, sub-vendors, and data from Indian and overseas clients.

Likely the boss: consent, breach reporting, transfers abroad, and when extra duties could apply.

Parent consent, what the school exemption covers, and student records.

Patient data, the child-health exemption, records and breach plans.

Checkout consent, the three-year inactivity rule for large stores, and old customer records.

IT Rules on AI-made media, platform labelling duties, and how to complain if someone fakes you.

Lead lists, TRAI do-not-disturb rules, cookie choices and children's ads.

Staff data under the employment ground, monitoring, background checks and AI hiring tools.

The public-service ground, breach response and the 6-hour CERT-In clock.

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