In simple words
When the Government or its bodies use personal data to give subsidies, benefits, services, certificates, licences or permits, they must follow the standards in the Second Schedule.
- What this means for you
- Government departments must handle your data for welfare schemes and licences with care.
- What this means for businesses
- Applies to the State and its instrumentalities.
- Everyday example
- A state scheme that gives scholarships uses student data only for the scholarship and keeps it secure.
Who it applies to
The State and its instrumentalities.
Related sections and Schedules
Official textas notified
Source: MeitY copy of the Gazette, page 25. Printed dashes are shown as colons; the wording is unchanged.
(1) Processing the personal data of a Data Principal under this rule shall be done following the standards specified in Second Schedule.
(2) In this rule and the Second Schedule, the reference to any subsidy, benefit, service, certificate, licence or permit that is provided or issued:
(a) under law shall be construed as a reference to provision or issuance of such subsidy, benefit, service, certificate, licence or permit in exercise of any power of or the performance of any function by the State or any of its instrumentalities under any law for the time being in force;
(b) under policy shall be construed as a reference to provision or issuance of such subsidy, benefit, service, certificate, licence or permit under any policy or instruction issued by the Central Government or a State Government in exercise of its executive power; and
(c) using public funds shall be construed as a reference to provision or issuance of such subsidy, benefit, service, certificate, licence or permit by incurring expenditure on the same from, or with accrual of receipts to,
(i) in case of the Central Government or a State Government, the Consolidated Fund of India or the Consolidated Fund of the State or the public account of India or the public account of the State; or
(ii) in case of any local or other authority within the territory of India or under the control of the Government of India or of any State, the fund or funds of such authority.