The Legal Aspects of Background Verification in India

As a company owner, I want to protect my organization, but do I also show the same concern for others? When we do employee verification, we collect all the related documents of employees, like IDs and degrees, but do we care to emphasize secure storage and use of data? According to the IT Act 2000, it is necessary to maintain secure data storage and use. According to IT Rules 2011 (SPDI), we cannot use individual data for our benefit. Some IT companies use their employees’ data as public testing data. If you do not want to be like those organizations that do unethical practices with their employees' data, then obtaining consent is mandatory.

There are two ways of obtaining consent: a consent form and informed consent (before taking the candidate’s data, first make them aware of their rights). Background verification companies intrude into an individual’s life like they start calling candidates anytime, which invades our right to privacy. As intellectuals, we should follow all the compliance policies and safeguard our employees’ rights. India is a wonderful country where we can find talented people, and also we can find a large number of unemployed people. If you want to support our country, then first we should obey the rules and mandatory regulations.