India — Digital Personal Data Protection Act (candidate data) and equal-opportunity hiring
What it asks of employers
- Give candidates notice and get consent. On or before collecting a candidate's personal data, give them an itemized notice of the data and the purpose, how to exercise their rights, and how to complain — and obtain consent through a clear affirmative action, which they may withdraw at any time.
- Correct inaccurate candidate information on request. When a candidate says information about them is wrong or out of date, correct it — in your applicant tracking system if the record is there, or by asking Amp to update information held in Amp, which Amp does through support on request.
- Don't discriminate in hiring on grounds the law protects. Don't use AI in recruiting in a way that discriminates against a candidate on a protected ground — in India's private sector, sex in recruitment and disability; review Amp's bias-test and audit evidence before and while you use the tool.
What Amp does
- Amp answers candidate requests to see their data. When a candidate asks for a summary of the personal data you hold and how it's being processed, Amp gathers it so you can respond.
- Amp deletes candidate data on request. When a candidate asks you to erase their personal data, Amp removes the data it holds so you can honor the request.
- Amp keeps candidate data only as long as it's needed. Amp follows your organization's retention policy and erases candidate data once consent is withdrawn or the purpose it was collected for is no longer being served.
- Amp bias-tests scoring and applies it consistently. Amp regularly tests candidate scoring for bias across demographic groups (by race and sex) and uses the same job-related scoring for every candidate. This directly supports non-discrimination on the ground Indian law names for hiring — sex, under the Code on Wages, 2019; the race dimension is additional fairness evidence, as India's private sector has no race/caste hiring statute. Amp's bias test covers race and sex; other protected grounds remain your own assessment.