From Compliance to Consent: Rewriting Workforce Trust in the DPDP Era
India’s workplaces are entering a new phase of data responsibility. For many years, employee data practices were built around compliance. Organisations collected what was required, stored it, protected it, and produced it when needed. That approach served a certain purpose. But it is no longer enough.
With the Digital Personal Data Protection framework taking shape, the question before organisations is not whether they are following the law. It is whether employees understand, trust and accept the way their personal data is being used.
