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Legal basis of processing and privacy notice
In the second instalment of our Prism series on the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ("DPDPA"), we delve into the legal basis for processing personal data and the requirements around privacy notice. Building on our first edition, which examined the applicability of the DPDPA and identified the key stakeholders, this episode shifts focus to the legal grounds, basis which, personal data can be processed under the DPDPA. Subsequently, we summarise the requirements of a privacy notice and when a notice must be provided to the data principals. In the latter part of the Prism, we compare and contrast data protection laws in the European Union, the State of California, USA and Singapore to understand their approach towards legal grounds for processing and privacy notice.
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