Draft Data Rules: According to the draft guidelines suggested for the Digital Personal Data Protection guidelines, 2025, children must have the agreement of an adult before opening a social media account. The adult can be a parent or guardian, according to the draft rules.
Full Information of Draft Data Rules
The Centre released the draft rules on Friday and requested the public to submit feedback and comments.The public can provide feedback at mygov.in, and the draft guidelines will be considered after February 18, according to a notification issued Friday by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
According to the rules, a kid’s given to a consent to open a social media account must be “verifiable,” and processing personal data of a child or a person with a handicap will only occur with “verifiable” consent.
Table of Contents
“A details fiduciary shall adopt the necessary organisational and technical measures to ensure that confirmed consent of the parent is obtained before the processing of any personal data of children and shall observe due diligence, for verifying that the individual identifying herself as the parent is an adult who is identifiable if required in connection with compliance with any law for the time being in force in India…,” the proposed regulations read.
The draft rules include greater consumer control over data; users can demand data deletion; companies should be more transparent with personal data; consumers have the right to ask why their data is being collected; and there is a huge penalty of up to Rs 250 crore for data breaches.
The regulations identify ‘e-commerce entity’ as any individual who owns, operates, or manages an online facility or platform for e-commerce as defined in the Consumer Protection Act of 2019, but excludes a seller providing goods or services for sale on a marketplace e-commerce entity as defined in the said Act.
“Online gaming intermediary” refers to any middleman who allows individuals of its computer resource to access one or more games on the internet, and “social networking intermediary” refers to an intermediary as defined in the Information Technology Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) who primarily or solely facilitates online interaction between two or more users and allows them to create, upload, share, disseminate, modify, or access information using her services.
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