# India DPDP Act 2023 LB-001 — Consent Quality & Management - Source: https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/lb-001-consent-quality-management - Section: [Compliance](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance) › [Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India)](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023) › Lawful Basis (LB) - Last updated: 2026-06-05 - Publisher: iCompaas, Inc. (https://www.icompaas.com) **India DPDP Act 2023**·Control `LB-001`·critical·Component: **Lawful Basis** ## What this control requires > Implement a consent management system ensuring all consents meet DPDPA requirements: free from duress, specific (per-purpose), informed, unconditional, unambiguous, and expressed through clear affirmative action. Prohibit: pre-ticked boxes, bundled consent, and retrospective consent. Maintain immutable, timestamped consent logs for the duration of processing. Objective: Ensure the quality and validity of all consents collected, making all consent-based processing lawful and auditable. > > — India DPDP Act 2023, Control LB-001 ### In plain English Implement a consent management system ensuring all consents meet DPDPA requirements: free from duress, specific (per-purpose), informed, unconditional, unambiguous, and expressed through clear affirmative action. In practice, this means you can prove you maintain consent quality-level controls on a defined cadence. ## Why it matters Penalties under the DPDP Act reach ₹250 crore per instance of significant non-compliance, and the Act applies extra-territorially to any entity processing personal data of individuals in India in connection with offering goods or services. This control is rated **critical** in the source catalogue. Treat gaps here as production incidents in the risk register, not housekeeping. ## What an auditor looks for Indian DPAs and statutory auditors will look for: documented consent capture and revocation flows, a designated Data Protection Officer (for Significant Data Fiduciaries), breach-notification workflows tied to Data Protection Board notification timelines, and Records of Processing that match the consent notice the user saw. Within **Lawful Basis**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Control LB-001) and look for objective evidence on the latest two assessment cycles. ## How to implement #### Policy Management **Docs.** Keep each policy in version-controlled Markdown alongside the code that implements it; ship a signed PDF snapshot at each annual review and link the SHA into the SoA. ### Operational checklist - **Maintain.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Implement.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Ensure.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence. - **Scope:** consent quality, management. ## Evidence to collect - **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document. Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Focus: Consent Quality & Management. ## Common pitfalls - Policies that no engineer has read; the version in Confluence drifts from the version that's actually being enforced. ## How it maps to other frameworks Computed from shared tags, control component and key-operation subjects — handy when you are reconciling controls across an audit. - [**ISO/IEC 27701:2025 A.1.2.5** — Obtain & record consent](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27701-2025/a-1-2-5-obtain-record-consent) - [**SOC 2 (2017 TSC) P3.2** — Consent Management for Personal Information Collection](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria/p3-2-consent-management-for-personal-information-collection) - [**GDPR Article 6** — Lawfulness of processing](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr/article-6-lawfulness-of-processing) - [**ISO/IEC 27001:2022 A.5.5** — Contact with authorities](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022/a-5-5-contact-with-authorities) - [**NIST SP 800-53 Rev. 5 PL-2(3)** — Plan And Coordinate With Other Organizational Entities](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/nist-sp-800-53-rev-5/pl-2-3-plan-and-coordinate-with-other-organizational-entities) ## Related controls in India DPDP Act 2023 - [**Control DS-005** — Consent Withdrawal Mechanism](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/ds-005-consent-withdrawal-mechanism) - [**Control SC-002** — Data Principal Identification & Guardian Consent Management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-002-data-principal-identification-guardian-consent-management) - [**Control LB-002** — Legal Obligation Processing Register](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/lb-002-legal-obligation-processing-register) - [**Control TR-002** — Multi-Language Consent Interface](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/tr-002-multi-language-consent-interface) - [**Control LB-003** — Emergency & Public Interest Processing Protocol](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/lb-003-emergency-public-interest-processing-protocol) - [**Control LB-005** — Employee Privacy Notice & HR Data Governance](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/lb-005-employee-privacy-notice-hr-data-governance) ## References - [Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (India) — India DPDP Act 2023](https://www.meity.gov.in/content/digital-personal-data-protection-act-2023) - Catalogue identifier: `Control LB-001` Topics: governance riskdata protectionprivacy managementpolicy management ## Related compliance guidance - [India's DPDP Act 2023: a practical compliance guide for cloud teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023): Start with the full DPDP Act implementation guide — scope, roadmap, evidence and how the assessment runs. - [GDPR compliance: a practical implementation guide for cloud-native SaaS teams](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr): Most teams extend an existing GDPR programme to India; this guide shows where the lawful bases, timelines and breach rules differ. - [ISO/IEC 27001:2022 compliance: a practical implementation guide](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/iso-27001-2022): Rule 6's reasonable security safeguards map almost one-to-one onto ISO 27001 Annex A controls you may already operate.