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A Republican lawmaker in Indiana has announced the introduction of a bill that lays out the framework for an age verification system in the Hoosier State.

​​Not just social media platforms, but all companies will need to have age verification mechanisms, otherwise, theres no way to record the verifiable consent of users, experts told ET. The mandate will be high cost and time consuming, which is worrying all firms, they added.

Data Law: Technology, and telecommunication lawyers who are being approached for guidance on the implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, have told companies to read the finer details and realise that the age-gating clause in the DPDPA is not just for social media companies and education technology platforms, a chunk of whose consumer base, are children. It will be applicable to others too who have to make sure their customers are not minors.

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

While big tech companies have six months to comply with the new law, the clause on obtaining parental consent for minors may get an extended transition window for implementation, “subject to all of us agreeing on what is the way to do it”, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, minister of state for IT, told ET.

An extended transition period would provide certain data fiduciaries with the necessary time to align their operations with the requirements outlined in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act.

Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar said that the government expects transition for most of the provisions of the Act, except provisions on age-gating and so on, within 12 months.

Age gating refers to age verification system to restrict access to digital content to children. The Digital Personal Data Protection Law, passed by Indian parliament earlier this year, defines any user below the age of 18 as children and requires all companies dealing in the data of this demographic to obtain explicit parental consent before processing any data belonging to this age group.

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