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Parents in favour of digital data protection rules
The New Indian Express Coimbatore
|February 28, 2025
What The Draft Rules Envision Parents and guardians are empowered to ensure online safety for their children. Balance between innovation and regulation
NINE in 10 Indian parents favour the draft digital personal data protection rules (DPDP), 2025, which propose that online platforms, like social media, OTT, and online gaming, identify minor accounts with age misrepresentation by either seeking parental consent or shutting such 'fake' accounts, a nation-wide survey has found.
The survey also found that 58% of parents support using profile and content consumption information to determine accounts with age misrepresentation and use AI to identify age-misrepresented accounts of children.
This story is from the February 28, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Coimbatore.
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