Who is a Consent Manager? Know details as govt tightens digital data protection rules, says children need permission to…
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Who is a Consent Manager? Know details as govt tightens digital data protection rules, says children need permission to…

Live Mint  

The Centre released draft digital data protection rules on Friday evening — outlining arious legal provisions including ways to process the data of children and the role of a 'consent manager'. The rules outlined in the draft call for data fiduciaries to ensure the consent of a parent before processing the data of children through government issued IDs or linked digital tokens. “Consent Manager must be a company incorporated in India with sound financial and operational capacity, having a minimum net worth of two crore rupees, a reputation for fairness and integrity in its management, and a certified interoperable platform enabling Data Principals to manage their consent,” reads an excerpt from the Explanatory note shared by MeitY. The consent manager will enable a ‘data principal’ who is using its platform to greenlight the processing of personal data.

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Mint Explainer: The digital personal data protection Act, its rules, and roadblocks
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1 day, 19 hours ago

Mint Explainer: The digital personal data protection Act, its rules, and roadblocks

Live Mint  

Companies waited nearly two years for the Indian government to frame rules for implementing the Digital Personal Data Protection Act—a threadbare legislation with a lot of queries on compliance mechanisms left unanswered. Concern: In emphasizing the “specified" purpose of the data, the legislators have created an overlap with the provisions of “Legitimate Use" under the DPDP Act, which allows data …

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules: Govt drafts stringent parental consent rules for social media users under 18
5 days, 14 hours ago

Digital Personal Data Protection Rules: Govt drafts stringent parental consent rules for social media users under 18

Op India  

On 3rd December, the Government of India proposed detailed rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025. One of the most talked-about aspects of the draft is the rule that makes verifiable parental consent mandatory for creating social media accounts and processing the personal data of children. As per the draft rules, every organisation that collects personal data must …

Centre Notifies Draft Rules for Digital Personal Data Protection Act
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5 days, 19 hours ago

Centre Notifies Draft Rules for Digital Personal Data Protection Act

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday notified the draft rules for the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act proposes to make parent’s verifiable consent and identification mandatory for the creation of a child's user account on online or social media accounts. The draft rules says the parents’ identity and …

Parental Consent Needed For Children To Join Social Media, Gaming Platforms : Proposal In Draft Digital Personal Protection Rules
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6 days ago

Parental Consent Needed For Children To Join Social Media, Gaming Platforms : Proposal In Draft Digital Personal Protection Rules

Live Law  

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology on Friday notified the draft rules under the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 for public comments.The draft, among others, proposes to mandate parental consent for data-fiduciaries to process the personal data of children. The rules state : "A Data Fiduciary shall adopt appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure that verifiable consent …

Government to soon make parental consent mandatory for children to use social media
6 days, 2 hours ago

Government to soon make parental consent mandatory for children to use social media

India TV News  

The eagerly anticipated draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules was unveiled by the Central Government on Friday. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology released this draft of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, which was initially introduced in Parliament in August 2023. One significant change proposed in the Digital Personal Data Protection Act is that children under …

Children below 18 will need parents' consent to create social media account: Draft rules
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6 days, 10 hours ago

Children below 18 will need parents' consent to create social media account: Draft rules

Hindustan Times  

The draft of Digital Personal Data Protection rules, released by the central government on Friday, stated that children under the age of 18 will now require parental consent to create social media accounts. “A data fiduciary shall adopt appropriate technical and organization measures to ensure that verifiable consent of the parent is obtained before the processing of any personal data …

Parental consent mandatory to process children’s personal data, say draft DPDP rules
6 days, 10 hours ago

Parental consent mandatory to process children’s personal data, say draft DPDP rules

Live Mint  

The central government released the draft digital data protection rules on Friday evening — more than a year after it was first notified as a law. MeitY has proposed a staggered implementation of the rules — with five segments pertaining to the selection and functioning of the Data Protection Board coming immediately into effect. The rules outlined in the draft …

NCPCR likely to seek clause for parents’ consent under data protection rules
4 months, 2 weeks ago

NCPCR likely to seek clause for parents’ consent under data protection rules

Hindustan Times  

The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights is likely to write to the ministry of electronics and information technology, asking it to prescribe methods in the upcoming draft Digital Personal Data Protection Rules to verify parents’ or guardians’ consent for the use of children’s data, the body’s chairperson said on Tuesday. “There is a need to start verification of …

Govt may not define specific steps for parental control measures
5 months, 3 weeks ago

Govt may not define specific steps for parental control measures

Hindustan Times  

The ministry of electronics and information technology does not intend to prescribe a specific mechanism for data fiduciaries to verify parental consent for minors using digital services, people familiar with the matter said, citing discussions between the government and social media companies on the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules held on Thursday. One social media executive, in the meeting, noted …

Needed, a new approach to data protection for minors
1 year, 11 months ago

Needed, a new approach to data protection for minors

The Hindu  

How freely should Indian teenagers access the Internet? The draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 currently provides for mandatory parental consent for all data processing activities by children, defined as any person aged under 18 years. In a country with low digital literacy, where parents in fact often rely on their children to help them navigate the Internet, this …

Personal Data Protection Bill: Overbroad Exemptions on Data Processing Dilute Govt’s Own Cause
3 years ago

Personal Data Protection Bill: Overbroad Exemptions on Data Processing Dilute Govt’s Own Cause

News 18  

Among all the ongoing debates around the Personal Data Protection Bill, 2019, the most contentious issue that the Parliament will engage on—with the Joint Parliamentary Committee submitting its report on the Bill in the Rajya Sabha—will be of exempting the application of various provisions of the Bill to state’s processing of personal data. It is a significant departure from the …

Data protection bill: Panel calls for strict rules for firms, leeways for govt
3 years, 1 month ago

Data protection bill: Panel calls for strict rules for firms, leeways for govt

Hindustan Times  

The joint parliamentary committee reviewing the proposed data protection law finalised its report on Monday, suggesting stricter compliance requirements for companies while adding or tweaking clauses that provide for lighter obligations on government agencies, and recommending that State have greater say in the legal mechanism that will be set up to safeguard personal and non-personal data, according to people aware …

Select Committee of Parliament still to finalise report on data protection law: Prasad
3 years, 7 months ago

Select Committee of Parliament still to finalise report on data protection law: Prasad

The Hindu  

IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday said the Select Committee of Parliament is still to finalise its report on the data protection law, adding that he looked forward to the final report so that the legislation receives parliamentary approval soon. In a tweet, Prasad said: "I understand that the Select Committee of the Parliament is still to finalise its …

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