Govt asks Big Tech platforms to trial manage age-gating on their own
Meta, Google, Snap, X (formerly Twitter) and others, to come up with “appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure effective observance of the provisions" of the law.At present, the DPDP Act has defined the legal age of children as 18. Users below 18 years have to get verifiable parental consent for using social media or other intermediary services.
So far, the Centre had suggested the use of Aadhaar, or the DigiLocker document storage platform, to be potentially used to verify the age of children and seek parental consent to use the respective social media platforms. However, a senior government official said that such proposals have not worked out fully so far—thereby leaving them to ask the social media intermediaries to come up with their own solutions.Milestone Alert!
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