# India DPDP Act 2023 SC-006 — Consent Manager Oversight & Agreement

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- Last updated: 2026-06-05
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**India DPDP Act 2023**·Control `SC-006`·high·Component: **Scope & Classification**

## What this control requires

> If the organisation engages a registered Consent Manager, maintain a formal agreement covering: DPB registration details of the CM, scope of consent management delegated, consent log access and audit rights, liability allocation, and termination/data return procedures. Objective: Ensure any Consent Manager engagement is formally governed and that the organisation retains oversight of consent records managed by the CM.
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> — India DPDP Act 2023, Control SC-006

### In plain English

If the organisation engages a registered Consent Manager, maintain a formal agreement covering: DPB registration details of the CM, scope of consent management delegated, consent log access and audit rights, liability allocation, and termination/data return procedures. In practice, this means you can prove you maintain consent manager oversight-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 **high**. Auditors expect a named owner, a remediation SLA, and a tooling artefact that evidences continuous operation.

## 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 **Scope & Classification**, the assessor will trace your implementation back to the catalogue reference (Control SC-006) 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.

#### Asset Inventory

**AWS.** AWS Config Aggregator across every account + region gives a real-time inventory; ship the daily snapshot to S3 and surface drift in Security Hub.

**Azure.** Azure Resource Graph plus Defender for Cloud's inventory blade enumerates every subscription; export to Log Analytics for retention and Workbooks for reporting.

**GCP.** Cloud Asset Inventory exports a daily feed of every resource and IAM binding; query via BigQuery and alert on appearance/disappearance.

**Endpoints.** Pipe MDM telemetry (Intune / Jamf / Workspace ONE) into your CMDB so laptops and phones are inventoried with the same rigour as cloud resources.

### Operational checklist

-   **Maintain.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Ensure.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Log.** Document the trigger, the owner and the cadence.
-   **Scope:** consent manager oversight, agreement.

## Evidence to collect

-   **Policy Document.** A signed and version-controlled policy / standard / procedure document.

Signed policies, procedures, and registers document the safeguard. Focus: Consent Manager Oversight & Agreement.

## Common pitfalls

-   Policies that no engineer has read; the version in Confluence drifts from the version that's actually being enforced.
-   Inventories that exclude SaaS, shadow IT and ephemeral cloud resources (Lambda, Cloud Run, K8s pods) miss the assets where most modern incidents start.

## 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)
-   [**GDPR Article 6** — Lawfulness of processing](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/gdpr/article-6-lawfulness-of-processing)
-   [**SOC 2 (2017 TSC) P2.1** — Communication of Data Subject Choices and Consequences](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/soc-2-trust-services-criteria/p2-1-communication-of-data-subject-choices-and-consequences)

## Related controls in India DPDP Act 2023

-   [**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 SC-007** — Lawful Processing Matrix](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-007-lawful-processing-matrix)
-   [**Control SC-001** — Digital Personal Data Inventory](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-001-digital-personal-data-inventory)
-   [**Control SC-008** — Children's Data Processing Controls](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-008-children-s-data-processing-controls)
-   [**Control SC-003** — Data Fiduciary Role Assignment & ROPA](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-003-data-fiduciary-role-assignment-ropa)
-   [**Control SC-005** — Data Processor Register & DPA Management](https://support.icompaas.com/compliance/india-dpdp-act-2023/sc-005-data-processor-register-dpa-management)

## 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 SC-006`

Topics: governance riskdata protectionprivacy managementpolicy managementasset inventory

## 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.
