Google and Meta have different ideas on verifying children's age online. This is happening because of rules in Europe and India. Google wan...

The bill, introduced by Texas State Senator Angela Paxton, requires parental permission for anyone under 18 to access apps or make in-app p...

Age limits and parental consent for social media apps are among the few areas of wide US consensus, with a Pew Research poll in 2023 findin...

Texas is considering a law for age checks on app stores. Parental approval is needed for users under 18 to download apps. Apple and Google ...

The DPDP Rules require verifiable parental consent for processing children's data, creating challenges for social media companies. While la...

Section 9 of the DPDP Act mandates parental consent for the processing of children’s data and restricts personalised content for minors und...

The government will discuss with the companies the best possible solution for verifying the age of children and getting parental consent. U...

The state's Republican-led legislature passed a bill in February that would have banned children under 16 from social media entirely. DeSan...

Social media and internet giants Google and Meta are headed for a clash in India over the critical issue of age verification and consent ma...

Age-verification of children – that is, users below the age of 18 – could be done through documents stored either in DigiLocker, an Aadhaar...

Many companies are also favouring a token-based mechanism - which is akin to tokenisation of credit cards - for obtaining verifiable parent...

The survey further revealed that 73% of urban Indian parents surveyed want the data protection law to ensure mandatory parental consent is ...

Social media platforms such as Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents o...

The Digital Personal Data Protection bill defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 yea...

Mostly US-based co-parenting apps such as We Parent, Our Family Wizard and Talking Parents are becoming part of Indian couples fighting acr...

Over-reliance on parents for consent may curtail access for teenagers due to various reasons, including parents' lack of exposure, gender b...

The new parental controls are part of Meta's promise to protect children using its social media apps, after a whistleblower leaked internal...