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Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 changed how Indian businesses handle personal data. For industrial plants, the impact is real every day at the gate: every visitor handed a paper register, every contractor whose Aadhaar was photocopied, every photo taken at the kiosk is now a DPDPA touchpoint. Zentry handles it cleanly.
| CONSENT | Captured today | 1,184 |
| STORAGE | India-resident | Yes |
| ERASURE | Requests honoured | 12 / 12 |
| WITHDRAWAL | Active withdrawals | 3 |
| AUDIT LOG | Operations signed | 100% |
| BREACH | Incidents | 0 |
The DPDPA 2023 is the most consequential data protection legislation in India's history. Penalties run up to ₹250 crore per breach. The Data Protection Board of India is the enforcing authority, in the early stages of setup but with broad powers. For an industrial plant, the touchpoints are everywhere: visitor PII at the gate, contractor PII in the HR system, employee PII in payroll, biometric data captured by access control, photos taken at the kiosk.
DPDPA demands explicit consent before collection, India-resident storage by default (with limited exceptions), the right to withdraw consent, the right to erasure, and signed audit logs of every PII operation. Until Zentry, most plants handled visitor PII on a paper clipboard with no consent, no log, no withdrawal mechanism. That is now a ₹250-crore-per-breach exposure.
What DPDPA 2023 demands at the plant gate:
Zentry was architected DPDPA-first. Pass captures consent at the kiosk. All three deployment tiers store PII on India-resident infrastructure. Right-to-erasure workflows are built in. Every PII operation generates a signed audit entry.
The Zentry modules that produce the audit-defensible evidence chain for DPDPA 2023.
Explicit consent capture at the kiosk before any visitor PII collection. India-resident storage on all three deployment tiers. Granular withdrawal. Right-to-erasure workflow per visitor.
Contractor PII handled per DPDPA on every gate event. India-resident audit log. Per-worker erasure on contract end.
Signed audit log per PII operation across all six modules. Breach notification workflow per the Code provisions.
Pain: Paper visitor register with Aadhaar photocopies. DPDPA breach exposure grows every quarter.
Zentry answer: DPDPA-compliant kiosk visitor management. Explicit consent, India-resident, signed audit log. Breach exposure closes.
Pain: DPDPA Data Protection Officer responsibilities. No way to demonstrate consent or erasure for visitor data.
Zentry answer: In-product DPO workflow. Consent ledger. Erasure ledger. Breach notification template. DPO toolkit out of the box.
Pain: Data residency requirements across visitor, contractor and employee PII. Multi-system reconciliation is brittle.
Zentry answer: Single platform, India-resident on all three tiers, audit log per PII operation. CIO posture simplifies dramatically.
Pre-Zentry, the multi-plant FMCG manufacturer collected visitor PII on paper clipboards at 12 plant gates, with Aadhaar photocopies stored in the security cabin. Post-DPDPA notification, the exposure was real: 12 plants, 12 paper registers, no consent, no log, ₹250 crore per breach. Post-Zentry, every gate runs the kiosk visitor flow with explicit consent, India-resident storage, signed audit log per entry. The DPO toolkit operationalised in 8 weeks across the Group. Composite story drawn from real deployments. Industry, geography and metrics are representative.
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Yes. Zentry was architected DPDPA-first. Explicit consent capture at every PII touchpoint. India-resident storage on all three deployment tiers. Granular withdrawal mechanism. Right-to-erasure workflow per data principal. Signed audit log per PII operation.
Cloud: India-resident, multi-AZ. Hybrid Edge: at the plant in India. On-Premise: at the plant in India, air-gapped. All three tiers keep PII inside India.
Pass kiosk shows the consent notice in the visitor's chosen language. Visitor signs explicit consent on-screen. The consent is timestamped, versioned, and signed. Withdrawn at any time via the visitor portal or via DPO request.
Each visitor's data principal record can be erased via the DPO workflow. The platform retains the audit log of the erasure event for the statutory retention period. The PII itself is purged per the DPDPA requirement.
Yes. The Code provisions include a breach notification template that the DPO can issue from the platform. The audit log records every breach event for the regulator's investigation if requested.
The platform includes a DPO register: appointment date, DPO contact details, scope of responsibility. The register is part of the DPO toolkit and accessible to the Data Protection Board on request.
Yes. Aadhaar-related PII handling is supported under the UIDAI guidelines and the DPDPA framework. The platform handles consent, storage, and erasure per both regimes.
A single-plant DPDPA-ready deployment (Pass + Gate) goes live in 4 to 6 weeks. The DPO workflow configuration adds 1 week. Multi-plant Groups deploy plant-by-plant on a phased timeline.
Every gate read, every kiosk submission, every certificate validation lands in a single tamper-evident, signed log. From that one event, six modules produce six distinct evidence trails, for six different audits, six different inspectors and six different heads inside the plant.