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...

Emphasising the importance of personalised experiences, Rob Sherman, Meta's vice president of policy and deputy chief privacy officer, said...

Experts raise privacy concerns about the centralised APAAR student ID database, questioning its efficacy in obtaining verifiable parental c...

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

Rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act may prescribe an umbrella framework for companies on consent management instead...

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act 2023 will be released for public review in a couple of weeks, as per official sources. The ...

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

Navigating complexities of a minor's online-time, it's ideal for guardianship to be upheld by those nearest to a child at homes and in scho...

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...

The verification and subsequent consent management of the age of users below the age of 18 has been mandated by the Digital Personal Data P...

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

Not just social media platforms, but all companies will need to have age verification mechanisms, otherwise, there's no way to record the v...

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

While big tech companies have six months to comply with the new law, the clause on obtaining parental consent for minors may get an extende...

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...

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