AI-controlled toys serious threat for safety of children, action being taken: Union minister Ashwini VaishnawDuring the Question Hour in the Lok Sabha, the minister said that the government has made provisions under the Digital Personal Data Protec...
11 Mar, 2026, 11.11 PM IST
Centre sets April date for DPDP rules as MeitY studies feedbackThe Centre plans to finalise the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act rules by April. Industry bodies have raised concerns over data...
25 Mar, 2025, 06.01 AM IST
Experts flag APAAR risks as institutes push enrollmentExperts raise privacy concerns about the centralised APAAR student ID database, questioning its efficacy in obtaining verifiable parental c...
04 Feb, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Personal data breach notification, verifiable parental consent, dominate data rules consultationThe third consultation on the draft Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Rules was held by the ministry of electronics and information t...
26 Jan, 2025, 08.06 AM IST
Social media companies yet to take a final call on mechanics of parental consentThe DPDP Rules require verifiable parental consent for processing children's data, creating challenges for social media companies. While la...
24 Jan, 2025, 06.00 AM IST
Consent management, parental nod for kids on social media in focus: experts on DPDPThe provision related to localisation and additional oversight on cross-border data sharing in specified cases may see pushback from the in...
04 Jan, 2025, 02.36 PM IST
DPDP Act draft rules: Social media users under 18 years to require parental consentThe government has released the draft executive rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and is seeking stakeholder comments by...
04 Jan, 2025, 10.05 AM IST
MeitY releases draft rules for DPDP Act; seeks comments from stakeholdersThe government has released the draft executive rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act and is seeking stakeholder comments by...
04 Jan, 2025, 01.04 AM IST
Draft Data Protection Rules mandate due diligence, explicit consent for processing children dataThe government released draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules requiring verifiable parental consent for children creating accounts o...
03 Jan, 2025, 11.26 PM IST
DPDP Act: parents prefer one-time consent for children's dataSection 9 of the DPDP Act mandates parental consent for the processing of children’s data and restricts personalised content for minors und...
12 Nov, 2024, 12.21 PM IST
DPDP likely to offer consent framework instead of exact rulesRules under the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act may prescribe an umbrella framework for companies on consent management instead...
19 Sep, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Centre eyes multiple ways for age-gating, seeks viewsSenior officials from the ministry of electronics and information technology met industry executives from big tech companies, startups and ...
19 Jul, 2024, 06.00 AM IST
Govt eyes Big Tech, startups meet over DPDP Act age-gatingThe government will discuss with the companies the best possible solution for verifying the age of children and getting parental consent. U...
18 Jul, 2024, 10.14 AM IST
Age-gating rules apply to all firms under data lawNot just social media platforms, but all companies will need to have age verification mechanisms, otherwise, there's no way to record the v...
16 Oct, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
From QR codes to tokens, firms parse ideas for age-gatingMany companies are also favouring a token-based mechanism - which is akin to tokenisation of credit cards - for obtaining verifiable parent...
05 Oct, 2023, 01.04 AM IST
Soon, store parental consent in DigiLockerSocial media platforms such as Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents o...
23 Aug, 2023, 06.01 AM IST
Verifying ID for social media use could pose security risk: ExpertsThe Digital Personal Data Protection bill defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 yea...
10 Aug, 2023, 09.34 AM IST