DCPLA DSCI Certified Privacy Lead Assessor Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

Section 43A of the IT (Amendment) Act, 2008 states:

“When a body corporate, possessing, dealing or handling any sensitive personal data or information in a computer resource which it owns, controls or operates, is negligent in implementing and maintaining reasonable security practices, and thereby causes wrongful loss or wrongful gain, such body corporate shall be liable to pay damages.”

This clearly places the onus of compliance and data security on body corporates.

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Under the DSCI Privacy Framework and consistent with global definitions (including GDPR and APEC), a “Data Controller” is the entity that determines the purposes and means of processing personal data. For its own employees, an organization inherently controls how their personal data is collected, used, and stored — making it the data controller by default. This is not necessarily the case for clients or supervisory authorities, whose data processing may be governed by different contractual or legal terms.

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Personal Information under DSCI and global frameworks is information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. Whether the council’s map contains personal data depends on:

If the map, when combined with other information (like land records or property ownership data), could lead to identifying you as a resident or owner.

Hence, the answer is context-specific. If the map alone doesn't identify you, it's not personal information. But if combined with additional data, it may lead to your identification, thus qualifying it as personal information.

This aligns with DPF’s emphasis on “reasonably identifiable” individuals in assessing the scope of personal data.

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The “Privacy Organization and Relationship (POR)” practice area of the DSCI Privacy Framework focuses on:

Establishing a dedicated privacy function

Allocating adequate resources (human and technical)

Defining roles and responsibilities for privacy across organizational layers

It includes the evaluation of whether the organization has the capability (skills and capacity) to manage its privacy obligations effectively — precisely the scope described in this assessment scenario.

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