Soon, store parental consent in DigiLocker

economictimes.indiatimes.com:

Meta's Facebook or Instagram and Google’s YouTube Kids will be able to directly fetch and verify documents of teenagers’ parents from DigiLocker and use it to avail parental consent, people aware of the matter, told ET.

The Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, defines children as those below 18 years, which is above the global threshold. Users above 13 years of age are allowed on many social media platforms.

For users in India between 13 and 18 years of age to access any platform or avail services on the internet, apps may now have to get parental consent by verifying the identity of the children and their parents.

If the parent agrees to share the data with the social media platform, she will have to enter a one-time password to provide consent.

This consent will be recorded in the parents’ consent ledger, an official told ET, pointing out that “a lot of it is technology being developed.”

The feature will require the parent to declare all wards or children. Once the parent’s and the child’s OTPs are matched, the parent and the child will be mapped together, and consent will be provided to process the child’s data.


Minimising risk

Asked how the mapping will be done, the official said, “We’re figuring it out.

Once the mapping is achieved, alerts will go to that parent or guardian. It’s in the works.