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Data Principal Rights Navigator
Browse the rights to access, correction, erasure, grievance redressal and nomination, with plain explanations of how each works in practice.
Section 11
Right to access information about personal data
- This is broader than a plain 'what do you have on me' request — it extends to who you've shared it with and what categories were shared, not just your own copy of it.
Section 12
Right to correction and erasure of personal data
- Correction and erasure travel together with completion and updating — the right isn't limited to fixing errors, it also covers finishing incomplete records.
Section 13
Right of grievance redressal
- You cannot escalate straight to the Data Protection Board — the individual must first give the Fiduciary a chance to resolve the complaint directly.
Section 14
Right to nominate
- This is a novel feature relative to most global privacy laws — DPDP explicitly lets you designate a nominee to step into your data rights, similar to a nominee on a bank account.
Section 15
Duties of Data Principal
- Rights come with reciprocal duties: providing false identity information, filing frivolous complaints, or submitting fabricated correction requests are themselves statutory breaches, enforceable with the modest ₹10,000 penalty under the Schedule.
Duties that come with these rights
Section 15 requires every Data Principal to comply with applicable laws while exercising these rights — no impersonation, no suppressing material information, no frivolous grievances, and only verifiably authentic information when requesting correction or erasure.