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Google: The ministry of electronics and information technology is likely to issue a definitive “risk-based” framework with multiple options for social media and internet intermediaries to ensure age-gating and subsequent parental consent management.
The verification and subsequent consent management of the age of users below the age of 18 has been mandated by the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, which was passed in August this year.
Meta: The verification and subsequent consent management of the age of users below the age of 18 has been mandated by the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, which was passed in August this year.
Age-verification of children – that is, users below the age of 18 – could be done through documents stored either in DigiLocker, an Aadhaar-based process, a digital token, or at the app store level, depending on the risk of a childs data being possibly misused and the likely harm, a government official said.
The Indian government is considering a 'risk-based' age-gating framework for social media and internet platforms, requiring document-based age verification and parent consent. The framework is expected to apply to platforms like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and edtech and health platforms.