Parents’ Consent Must For Children’s Social Media Accounts: Draft Data Rules

A baby will want the consent of an grownup for opening social media accounts, based on the draft guidelines proposed for the Digital Private Knowledge Safety Guidelines, 2025. The grownup may be both a guardian or a guardian, the draft guidelines say.

The Centre launched the draft guidelines on Friday, and requested the general public to ship objections and recommendations. The general public suggestions may be submitted on mygov.in; the draft guidelines shall be considered after February 18, the Ministry of Electronics and Data Know-how (MeitY) mentioned in a notification Friday.

The consent given to a baby for opening social media accounts must be “verifiable”, the principles say, including processing of non-public knowledge of a kid or of an individual with incapacity will occur solely with the “verifiable” consent.

“A knowledge fiduciary shall undertake acceptable technical and organisational measures to make sure that verifiable consent of the guardian is obtained earlier than the processing of any private knowledge of a kid and shall observe due diligence, for checking that the person figuring out herself because the guardian is an grownup who’s identifiable if required in reference to compliance with any regulation in the intervening time in drive in India…,” the draft guidelines say.

A few of the salient options of the draft guidelines embody better shopper management over knowledge; customers can demand deletion of their knowledge; corporations ought to be extra clear with private knowledge; proper for shoppers to ask the rationale why their knowledge is being collected, and big penalty of as much as Rs 250 crore for knowledge breach.

The principles outline ‘e-commerce entity’ as any one who owns, operates or manages a digital facility or platform for e-commerce as outlined within the Client Safety Act, 2019, however doesn’t embody a vendor providing items or companies on the market on a market e-commerce entity as outlined within the mentioned Act.

“On-line gaming middleman” means any middleman who allows the customers of its pc useful resource to entry a number of on-line video games, and “social media middleman” means an middleman as outlined within the Data Know-how Act, 2000 (21 of 2000) who primarily or solely allows on-line interplay between two or extra customers and permits them to create, add, share, disseminate, modify or entry data utilizing her companies.