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DPDP Consent Notice for Visitors: What to Tell People at the Gate
A visitor gives his name and phone number at the gate and signs the register. Nobody told him why you need the number, how long you keep it, or whom to ask if he wants it removed. Under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, that missing e… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
DPDP and CCTV: Are Camera Recordings Personal Data?
Most factories, offices and campuses run cameras at the gate, in the corridors and in the car park. The footage shows faces, vehicles and movements of employees, visitors and contractors. Does the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 apply to… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
DPDP Data Breach Reporting: What Facility Teams Must Do
A security supervisor finds that the visitor register from last month is missing from the reception desk. A vendor emails to say a spreadsheet of contractor phone numbers went to the wrong address. A laptop with employee files is stolen from a car.… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
Biometric Attendance and the DPDP Act
Fingerprint and face-scan attendance machines are common at factory gates and office entrances. They solve buddy punching and save time. They also collect data about the body of every employee, which is among the most sensitive data a company can h… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
Handling a Visitor's Request to Delete Their Data
A visitor who came to your plant six months ago writes to say: please delete my name, number and photo from your records. Your guard has never seen such a request. The admin head is unsure whether to say yes. The email sits for two weeks. The Digi… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
DPDP Compliance for Schools: Parents and Visitors
A school holds the names, photographs, health notes, fee records and home addresses of hundreds of children, plus a visitor register at the gate and a pickup list for parents. Almost every item is personal data, and most of it is about minors. The … More
Posted on 10/18/2026
DPDP Compliance for Hospitals
A hospital holds some of the most private data there is: diagnoses, test results, prescriptions, insurance details and the names of families waiting in corridors. It also runs a busy front desk, a visitor pass desk, pharmacies, labs and cameras. Th… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
What Is a Gate Pass? Types, Uses and Who Signs It
A truck driver stands at a factory gate with a carton of spare parts. The guard asks for the gate pass. Without it, nothing leaves. With it, the guard checks the items, records the time and lifts the barrier. That small slip of paper, or its digita… More
Posted on 10/18/2026
Returnable Gate Pass (RGP): Meaning, Format and Process
A pump goes out for repair, a laptop goes to a client for a demo, a mould goes to a vendor for polishing. Each is expected back. If nobody records it properly, each can vanish for years. The returnable gate pass, or RGP, exists to stop that. This … More
Posted on 10/18/2026
Non-Returnable Gate Pass (NRGP): Meaning, Format and Process
A truckload of scrap leaves the plant on Friday evening. A box of obsolete spares goes to a dealer. A demo unit is gifted to a customer. None of these will come back. If the gate treats them like any other movement, the plant has no record of why t… More
Posted on 10/18/2026