Over 60% companies in India follow problematic data practices: Study

After a year of the passage of India’s privacy regulation—the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act—the perception of data practices followed by corporates in India is deemed problematic by citizens.

In a recent survey conducted jointly by CII and Protiviti, 61 per cent of the respondents felt that companies in India were taking part in activities such as excessive data collection and secondary processing without consent, which are not in line with the DPDP Act and are considered problematic from a user privacy point of view.