You Handed It Over Yourself
Data voluntarily provided for a purpose, with no objection indicated, needs no separate consent — the pharmacy receipt illustration
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Summary
Sometimes nobody has to ask for your consent.
Data voluntarily provided for a purpose, with no objection indicated, needs no separate consent — the pharmacy receipt illustration
Full transcript
Sometimes nobody has to ask for your consent.
Section 7 calls those legitimate uses.
The first one is data you volunteered
for the purpose they specified, and never objected to.
Pause. What may they use it for?
That purpose. Nothing beyond it.
The Act's example is a pharmacy receipt.
You give your number to have it texted.
They may text it. That is the permission.
No consent form. No wider licence.
s.7(a) + illustration (I) — Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 + Rules, 2025
In force from 13 May 2027